191 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 191 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 191 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 191 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 74 of them. Across every category, 402 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 73 reports, then heat and hot water at 34. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 508 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
191 Street carries 39 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 33 violations on file. Doors follows at 19 violations, then plumbing at 11. The housing file lists 264 residential buildings on 191 Street holding 508 homes, with 22 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on 191 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 35 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 14. 191 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 28 and housing at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 22. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 191 Street, at 87. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 191 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 508 homes on file, 85 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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191 Street runs through St. Albans, Hollis and Auburndale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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