140 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 140 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 140 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (92). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 140 Street. 57 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 111 of them. The whole 311 file on 140 Street holds 394 reports, and illegal parking is 28% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 89 reports, and blocked driveway with 85. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on 140 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 140 Street carries roughly 67 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 140 Street carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 140 Street is pests, at 17 violations. City housing records put 586 homes in 314 residential buildings on 140 Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among numbered streets, 140 Street ranks 69 on housing and 27 on infrastructure. A 27 on infrastructure places 140 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 28 and quietness at 27. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 140 Street is cleanliness, at 76.
Of the 586 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 Street runs through Baisley Park, College Point and Kew Gardens Hills, 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).