177 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 177 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.

Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.

That puts 177 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (83) and tree cover (89). Traffic safety (21) is the weak spot.

On the record

The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 177 Street. 48 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 21 among numbered streets. Blocked driveway draws more reports than anything else here, 80 of them. Across every category, 319 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 70 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 29. Reports on 177 Street span 60 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 57 reports for every 100 homes on 177 Street.

Inspectors have written 9 Class C violations on 177 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 177 Street is pests, at 22 violations. 411 residential buildings on 177 Street hold the 556 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 72 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 36. That 36 on infrastructure puts 177 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 64 on the same scale, with parking at 43. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 21. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. 177 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 556 on 177 Street.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

177 Street runs through Springfield Gardens & Brookville, St. Albans 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).

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