175 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 175 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 40, 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 175 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 175 Street, with 203 reports. Across every category, 584 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 80 reports, then blocked driveway at 63. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 175 Street. Set against the 960 homes on file, that is about 61 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 23 Class C violations on 175 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 63 violations on file. Structure accounts for 52 more, and paint and lead for 39. 548 residential buildings on 175 Street hold the 960 homes on file, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 56 people injured in crashes on 175 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 57 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 22. A 22 on traffic safety places 175 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 52 on the same scale, with parking at 30. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 28. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 175 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 175 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 175 Street is cleanliness, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 8% of the 960 homes on file, 79 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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175 Street runs through Springfield Gardens & Brookville, St. Albans and Pomonok, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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