179 Place, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 179 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 179 Place in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (64) and food nearby (68). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 179 Place name blocked driveway than any other category, 26 of them. The whole 311 file on 179 Place holds 224 reports, and blocked driveway is 12% of it. Illegal parking follows with 25 reports, and residential noise with 19. The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 179 Place carries roughly 95 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on 179 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 179 Place, 41 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 37 violations, then doors at 16. The housing file lists 91 residential buildings on 179 Place holding 237 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 38, with quietness at 21. That 21 on quietness puts 179 Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 33 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 26. Against every street in the city, 179 Place ranks 66 on tree cover and 61 on transit. 179 Place ranks 68 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 179 Place is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where 179 Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 64.
The housing file puts 15% of the 237 homes on 179 Place in rent stabilization, 35 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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179 Place runs through Jamaica and St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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