174 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 174 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 174 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (18) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 174 Street name abandoned vehicle than any other category, 69 of them. The whole 311 file on 174 Street holds 220 reports, and abandoned vehicle is 31% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (40 reports) and illegal parking (31). The file runs across 46 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 585 homes on file, that is about 38 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 174 Street is pests, at 19 violations. The housing file lists 449 residential buildings on 174 Street holding 585 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 174 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 88, with parking at 44. 174 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 85 and housing at 77. Against every street in the city, 174 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 27 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
Of the 585 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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174 Street runs through Pomonok, St. Albans and Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, 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).