140 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 140 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 140 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and tree cover (87). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 140 Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 68 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 6 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed, with 42 reports. The whole 311 file on 140 Avenue holds 191 reports, and abandoned vehicle is 22% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 28 reports, then illegal parking at 27. Reports on 140 Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 321 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 18 Class C violations on 140 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 21 violations on file. Plumbing follows at 13 violations. City housing records put 321 homes in 197 residential buildings on 140 Avenue, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 71, with housing at 16. A 16 on housing places 140 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 68 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 65. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 20. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 140 Avenue, at 87. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 140 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 140 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 100.
Of the 321 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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140 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village and Laurelton, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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