199 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 199 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 52, 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 199 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and tree cover (99). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 199 Street, with 108 reports. Across every category, 404 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (88 reports) and residential noise (43). In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on 199 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 199 Street carries roughly 44 reports per 100 of them.
199 Street carries 5 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 199 Street, 23 violations of it. City housing records put 925 homes in 711 residential buildings on 199 Street, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 199 Street have injured 43 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 74, with infrastructure at 14. 199 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 58 and traffic safety at 30 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 199 Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 199 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
Of the 925 homes on file, none 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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199 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).