186 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 186 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against numbered streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 186 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (67) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 186 Street, with 55 reports. Across every category, 264 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking follows with 54 reports, and heat and hot water with 42. The file runs across 57 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 448 homes on file, that is about 59 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 19 Class C violations on 186 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 186 Street is heat and hot water, at 13 violations. PLUTO counts 285 residential buildings and 448 homes on 186 Street, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 58 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 27. That 27 on cleanliness puts 186 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 42 and parking at 38. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 186 Street, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
About 25% of the 448 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 112 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 Street runs through Auburndale, Fresh Meadows and Hollis, 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).