138 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 138 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 138 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (86) and tree cover (93). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 138 Street, with 245 reports, and parking ranks 23 among numbered streets. Across every category, 587 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (133 reports) and residential noise (29). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on 138 Street. Set against the 1,246 homes on file, that is about 47 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 138 Street, 40 violations of it. Pests accounts for 25 more, and paint and lead for 15. 282 residential buildings on 138 Street hold the 1,246 homes on file, 53 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 63 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 138 Street ranks 76 on cleanliness and 26 on traffic safety. A 26 on traffic safety places 138 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 67 and infrastructure at 64. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 138 Street is quietness, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 1,246 homes on file, 34 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 Street runs through Queensboro Hill, Jamaica Hills and Kew Gardens Hills, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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