179 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 179 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 179 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (85) and tree cover (90). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 179 Street, with 216 reports. Across every category, 326 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 66% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (45 reports) and illegal parking (26). The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 581 homes on file, that is about 56 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on 179 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 13 violations on file. 371 residential buildings on 179 Street hold the 581 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 29 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 179 Street ranks 63 on housing and 26 on traffic safety. 179 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Parking ranks 55 on the same scale, with quietness at 27. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 179 Street, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
11% of the 581 homes recorded on 179 Street are rent-stabilized, 63 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
- 173 Street, Queens
- 179 Place, Queens
- 178 Street, Queens
- 182 Place, Queens
- Atari Lane, Queens
- 104 Avenue, Queens
179 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).