194 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 194 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 194 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 194 Street, with 160 reports. The whole 311 file on 194 Street holds 425 reports, and residential noise is 38% of it. Illegal parking follows with 94 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 57. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on 194 Street. About 55 reports per 100 homes sit on 194 Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 194 Street. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 194 Street, 15 violations of it. City housing records put 775 homes in 561 residential buildings on 194 Street, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 24 people injured in crashes on 194 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 194 Street ranks 85 on housing and 24 on quietness. That 24 on quietness puts 194 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 49 and traffic safety at 46 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 194 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Of the 775 homes on file, none 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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194 Street runs through St. Albans, Auburndale 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).