138 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 138 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 138 Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (66) and tree cover (83). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 138 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 23 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 32% of the 73 reports on file here. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 14 reports, then water system at 11. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on 138 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 138 Avenue carries roughly 49 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 138 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 123 residential buildings and 150 homes on 138 Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 43 among smaller avenues and cleanliness ranks 8. That 8 on cleanliness puts 138 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts housing at 42 and infrastructure at 9 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 138 Avenue ranks 83 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 150 on 138 Avenue.
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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138 Avenue runs through Laurelton, Rosedale and Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, 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).