137 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 137 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 137 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (84) and tree cover (92). Transit (25) 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 137 Street, with 447 reports. After that the file runs to illegal dumping (174 reports) and blocked driveway (74). Reports on 137 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 29 reports for every 100 homes on 137 Street.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on 137 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 137 Street is bed bugs, at 19 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (15 violations) and doors (13). City housing records put 955 homes in 242 residential buildings on 137 Street, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 137 Street holds about 3.9 homes.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 137 Street ranks 74 on traffic safety and 48 on infrastructure. That 48 on infrastructure puts 137 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 74 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 59. Against every street in the city, 137 Street ranks 65 on food nearby and 25 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 137 Street, at 92. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 137 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 137 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 84.
The housing file puts 6% of the 955 homes on 137 Street in rent stabilization, 56 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.
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137 Street runs through Flushing, Kew Gardens Hills and Queensboro 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).