178 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 178 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 178 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 178 Street, with 75 reports. Across every category, 308 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 70 reports, then residential noise at 64. The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 556 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
178 Street carries 5 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 178 Street is pests, at 15 violations. The housing file lists 348 residential buildings on 178 Street holding 556 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 178 Street have injured 26 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 74, with parking at 25. 178 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 61 and traffic safety at 31. Against every street in the city, 178 Street ranks 55 on food nearby and 24 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 178 Street, at 87. 178 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 178 Street is housing, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 556 homes on file, 137 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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178 Street runs through St. Albans, Fresh Meadows and 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).