196 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 196 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 196 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (65) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 196 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 111 of them. The whole 311 file on 196 Street holds 467 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 69 reports, and residential noise with 56. Reports on 196 Street span 64 distinct 311 categories. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on 196 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 24 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 196 Street is pests, at 64 violations. Paint and lead follows at 29 violations, then doors at 28. 683 residential buildings on 196 Street hold the 887 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 43 people injured in crashes on 196 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 57 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 28. 196 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Parking ranks 54 on the same scale, with housing at 43. Against every street in the city, 196 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 14 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 196 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where 196 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 65.
None of the 887 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 Street runs through Auburndale, St. Albans and Hollis, 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).