188 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 188 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 188 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and tree cover (96). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 188 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 155 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 214 of them. The whole 311 file on 188 Street holds 604 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. After that the file runs to traffic (49 reports) and blocked driveway (38). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. About 116 reports per 100 homes sit on 188 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 188 Street carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 188 Street, 13 violations of it. City housing records put 521 homes in 451 residential buildings on 188 Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among numbered streets, 188 Street ranks 72 on housing and 5 on parking. A 5 on parking places 188 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 30 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 6. Against every street in the city, 188 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 38 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 188 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 188 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
None of the 521 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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188 Street runs through Fresh Meadows, Jamaica Estates and Auburndale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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