136 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 136 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.

Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 136 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (90) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on 136 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 74 of them. The whole 311 file on 136 Street holds 310 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 70 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 30. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. About 65 reports per 100 homes sit on 136 Street, counting every category.

The HPD file on 136 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 478 homes in 284 residential buildings on 136 Street, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on 136 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 66, with parking at 24. 136 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 60 on the same scale, with quietness at 52. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 136 Street ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 136 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 136 Street is housing, at 90.

2% of the 478 homes recorded on 136 Street are rent-stabilized, 11 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

136 Street runs through Queensboro Hill, Kew Gardens Hills and College Point, 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).

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