189 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 189 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 189 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (76) and tree cover (96). Parking (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 189 Street, with 255 reports, and parking ranks 18 among numbered streets. Across every category, 443 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 93 reports, then blocked driveway at 59. Reports on 189 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. About 64 reports per 100 homes sit on 189 Street, 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. The housing file lists 560 residential buildings on 189 Street holding 696 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 71 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 22. A 22 on infrastructure places 189 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 69 and quietness at 61 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 189 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 28 on transit. 189 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 189 Street is housing, at 76.
None of the 696 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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189 Street runs through Auburndale, St. Albans and Jamaica Estates, 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).