197 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 197 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 197 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (69) and tree cover (98). Transit (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 197 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 142 of them. Across every category, 582 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 62 reports, and blocked driveway with 57. In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on 197 Street. Set against the 997 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 14 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 197 Street, 45 violations of it. Doors accounts for 27 more, and paint and lead for 15. City housing records put 997 homes in 690 residential buildings on 197 Street, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 58 people injured in crashes on 197 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 62, with traffic safety at 22. A 22 on traffic safety places 197 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 61 and parking at 24 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 197 Street, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 197 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 69.
The housing file puts 3% of the 997 homes on 197 Street in rent stabilization, 30 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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197 Street runs through St. Albans, Hollis and Fresh Meadows, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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