173 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 173 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 173 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (71) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 173 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 168 of them. Across every category, 590 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (150 reports) and blocked driveway (120). Reports on 173 Street span 55 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 173 Street carries roughly 78 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 20 Class C violations on 173 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 173 Street, 40 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 19 violations, then plumbing at 14. City housing records put 757 homes in 534 residential buildings on 173 Street, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 173 Street have injured 45 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 173 Street ranks 52 on housing and 19 on parking. 173 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Quietness ranks 46 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 22. Against every street in the city, 173 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 32 on transit. 173 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 173 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 757 homes on file, 5 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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173 Street runs through Pomonok, South Jamaica and St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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