142 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does 142 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 142 Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and tree cover (63). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on 142 Avenue, with 64 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on 142 Avenue holds 99 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 65% of it. Behind it sits residential noise, with 21 reports. Reports on 142 Avenue span 16 distinct 311 categories. About 83 reports per 100 homes sit on 142 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 142 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 88 residential buildings on 142 Avenue hold the 120 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on 142 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 84 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 19. A 19 on traffic safety places 142 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 72 on the same scale, with housing at 45. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 17. 142 Avenue ranks 63 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is where 142 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 85.
Of the 120 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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142 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village 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).