142 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 142 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 142 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (77) and tree cover (90). Transit (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 142 Street, with 113 reports. Across every category, 337 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 87 reports, then residential noise at 76. Reports on 142 Street span 60 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 608 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on 142 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 142 Street is pests, at 31 violations. Paint and lead follows at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 433 residential buildings and 608 homes on 142 Street, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 142 Street have injured 36 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 49 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 22. That 22 on traffic safety puts 142 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 48 on the same scale, with parking at 25. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 142 Street ranks 90 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 142 Street is housing, at 77.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 608 on 142 Street.
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 Street runs through Baisley Park, South Jamaica and Queensboro Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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