195 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 195 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.

Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 195 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (84) and tree cover (95). Transit (10) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on 195 Street, with 81 reports. Across every category, 535 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (76 reports) and illegal parking (75). Reports on 195 Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,075 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.

195 Street carries 74 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 40 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (15 violations) and doors (14). City housing records put 1,075 homes in 584 residential buildings on 195 Street, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 38 people injured in crashes on 195 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 79, with infrastructure at 15. That 15 on infrastructure puts 195 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 59 and housing at 33 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 10, 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. 195 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 195 Street is quietness, at 84.

Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 1,075 homes on file, 277 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

195 Street runs through Auburndale, Hollis and St. Albans, 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).

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