171 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 171 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 171 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (62) and tree cover (98). Transit (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 171 Street, with 125 reports. Across every category, 805 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 119 reports, and residential noise with 77. The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,358 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 171 Street carries 80 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 171 Street, 53 violations of it. Doors accounts for 26 more, and paint and lead for 16. City housing records put 1,358 homes in 653 residential buildings on 171 Street, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 171 Street have injured 38 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 171 Street ranks 56 on traffic safety and 38 on housing. That 38 on housing puts 171 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 51 and parking at 40. Against every street in the city, 171 Street ranks 55 on food nearby and 37 on transit. 171 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 171 Street is cleanliness, at 62.
20% of the 1,358 homes recorded on 171 Street are rent-stabilized, 268 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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171 Street runs through Murray Hill, Pomonok and South Jamaica, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).