144 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 30 out of 100. How does 144 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 30 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 144 Avenue in the bottom 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (44) and tree cover (94). Transit (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 144 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 144 Avenue have injured 49 people, and traffic safety ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 118 reports. The whole 311 file on 144 Avenue holds 285 reports, and illegal parking is 41% of it. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (47 reports) and residential noise (41). In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on 144 Avenue. About 52 reports per 100 homes sit on 144 Avenue, counting every category.
144 Avenue carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 144 Avenue is pests, at 27 violations. 369 residential buildings on 144 Avenue hold the 550 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 40, with traffic safety at 9. 144 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 34 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 27. Against every street in the city, 144 Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby and 8 on transit. 144 Avenue ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 144 Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 44.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 550 on 144 Avenue.
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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144 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, Springfield Gardens & Brookville and Rosedale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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