185 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 185 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 185 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (89). Street crime (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 185 Street, with 93 reports. Across every category, 303 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 45 reports, and residential noise with 38. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 623 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on 185 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 12 violations on file. 391 residential buildings on 185 Street hold the 623 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 68, with infrastructure at 12. That 12 on infrastructure puts 185 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 63 on the same scale, with parking at 39. Against every street in the city, 185 Street ranks 59 on food nearby and 36 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 185 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 185 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
14% of the 623 homes recorded on 185 Street are rent-stabilized, 86 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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185 Street runs through Fresh Meadows, Auburndale and Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, 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).