137 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does 137 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 137 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (40) and tree cover (95). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 137 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 137 Avenue have injured 57 people, and traffic safety ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 54 reports. The whole 311 file on 137 Avenue holds 265 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 53 reports, and heat and hot water with 33. Reports on 137 Avenue span 59 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 137 Avenue carries roughly 62 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 137 Avenue carries 18 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 137 Avenue, 16 violations of it. 307 residential buildings on 137 Avenue hold the 425 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 30 among smaller avenues and infrastructure ranks 17. A 17 on infrastructure places 137 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 29 and housing at 27 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 16, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 137 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 40.
None of the 425 homes on file 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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137 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, Laurelton and Rosedale, 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).