138 Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 138 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 138 Place in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (61) and transit (87). Street crime (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 138 Place, with 12 reports. The whole 311 file on 138 Place holds 187 reports, and residential noise is 6% of it. Reports on 138 Place span 29 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 154 homes on file, that is about 121 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 138 Place carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 138 Place is doors, at 25 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (25 violations) and structure (18). PLUTO counts 40 residential buildings and 154 homes on 138 Place, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 138 Place holds about 3.9 homes.
Reported crashes on 138 Place have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 45 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 5. A 5 on housing places 138 Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 27 and quietness at 7 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 77 and tree cover 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 138 Place ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 138 Place is parking, at 61.
26% of the 154 homes recorded on 138 Place are rent-stabilized, 40 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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138 Place runs through Jamaica and College Point, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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