196 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 196 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 196 Place in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (88). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 196 Place name illegal parking than any other category, 15 of them. Across every category, 39 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 12 reports, and residential noise with 10. The file runs across 31 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 196 Place carries roughly 21 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 196 Place holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 168 residential buildings and 190 homes on 196 Place, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 92 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 37. 196 Place sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 67 and infrastructure at 44. Against every street in the city, 196 Place ranks 39 on food nearby and 23 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 196 Place, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
None of the 190 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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196 Place runs through Auburndale and Fresh Meadows, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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