198 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 198 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 198 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (73) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 198 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 101 of them. The whole 311 file on 198 Street holds 425 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Residential noise follows with 66 reports, and blocked driveway with 56. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on 198 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 198 Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
198 Street carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 29 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 10 violations. City housing records put 1,021 homes in 732 residential buildings on 198 Street, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 32 people injured in crashes on 198 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 70 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 46. That 46 on traffic safety puts 198 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 65 and parking at 55. Against every street in the city, 198 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 10 on transit. 198 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 198 Street is housing, at 73.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,021 on 198 Street.
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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198 Street runs through St. Albans, Hollis 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).