139 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 139 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 139 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (57) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 139 Street, with 146 reports. Across every category, 558 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (70 reports) and blocked driveway (67). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on 139 Street. Set against the 696 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
139 Street carries 10 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 139 Street is doors, at 37 violations. Pests accounts for 28 more, and paint and lead for 21. City housing records put 696 homes in 316 residential buildings on 139 Street, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 139 Street holds about 2.2 homes.
Reported crashes on 139 Street have injured 46 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 139 Street ranks 40 on cleanliness and 19 on traffic safety. A 19 on traffic safety places 139 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 29 on the same scale, with parking at 24. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 139 Street, at 87. 139 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 139 Street is housing, at 57.
The housing file puts 15% of the 696 homes on 139 Street in rent stabilization, 106 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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139 Street runs through Jamaica Hills, South Jamaica and Baisley Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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