143 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 143 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 143 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (93). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 143 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 448 of them, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. Across every category, 803 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 154 reports, and residential noise with 74. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on 143 Street. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on 143 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 143 Street is pests, at 21 violations. PLUTO counts 514 residential buildings and 786 homes on 143 Street, with 16 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 63 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 52, with traffic safety at 12. A 12 on traffic safety places 143 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 20 and infrastructure at 13. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 35. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 143 Street is housing, at 78.
About 5% of the 786 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 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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143 Street runs through Baisley Park, Jamaica Hills and Jamaica, 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).