187 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 187 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 187 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (88). Street crime (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 187 Street, with 100 reports. Across every category, 156 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 64% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (41 reports) and blocked driveway (38). Reports on 187 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 384 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 187 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 348 residential buildings on 187 Street hold the 384 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 187 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 187 Street ranks 94 on housing and 32 on parking. 187 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 55 and cleanliness at 34. Against every street in the city, 187 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 37 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 187 Street, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 187 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 384 on 187 Street.
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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187 Street runs through Auburndale, Hollis and 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).