186 Lane, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 186 Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 186 Lane in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and food nearby (55). Tree cover (31) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on 186 Lane, with 26 reports. The whole 311 file on 186 Lane holds 130 reports, and residential noise is 20% of it. Illegal parking follows with 14 reports, and heat and hot water with 10. The file runs across 28 distinct 311 categories in all. About 19 reports per 100 homes sit on 186 Lane, counting every category.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on 186 Lane since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 90, with housing at 59. 186 Lane sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on housing. Quietness ranks 80 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 64. Against every street in the city, 186 Lane ranks 43 on transit and 31 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 186 Lane, at 55. 186 Lane is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 186 Lane is cleanliness, at 97.
About 77% of the 684 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 525 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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186 Lane runs through Fresh Meadows, 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).