139 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 29 out of 100. How does 139 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 29 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 139 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (90). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 139 Avenue. 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 5 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 61 reports. Across every category, 160 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 23 reports, and water system with 18. The file runs across 44 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 139 Avenue carries roughly 70 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 23 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 13 violations on file. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water, at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 162 residential buildings and 229 homes on 139 Avenue, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, 139 Avenue ranks 35 on quietness and 11 on housing. That 11 on housing puts 139 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 34 on the same scale, with parking at 32. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 23 and transit at 6. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. 139 Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 229 homes on file, none 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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139 Avenue runs through 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).