131 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 131 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 131 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and tree cover (82). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 131 Street, with 283 reports, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. Across every category, 965 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 184 reports, and residential noise with 108. Reports on 131 Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 114 reports for every 100 homes on 131 Street.
The HPD file on 131 Street carries 10 Class C violations, 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 131 Street, 27 violations of it. 568 residential buildings on 131 Street hold the 843 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 49 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 61 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 17. 131 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 23 on the same scale, with quietness at 17. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 31. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 131 Street, at 82. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 131 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 131 Street is cleanliness, at 88.
Of the 843 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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131 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and South Richmond Hill, 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).