144 Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 144 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 144 Place in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and food nearby (74). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 144 Place, with 74 reports. Across every category, 196 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Vehicle noise follows with 31 reports, and residential noise with 25. In all, 33 distinct 311 categories are represented on 144 Place. The 311 file works out to about 245 reports for every 100 homes on 144 Place.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 144 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 80 homes in 37 residential buildings on 144 Place, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 144 Place have injured 6 people since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, 144 Place ranks 83 on cleanliness and 3 on quietness. 144 Place sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 21 and parking at 4 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 56 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 144 Place, at 74. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 144 Place is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
15% of the 80 homes recorded on 144 Place are rent-stabilized, 12 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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144 Place runs through Whitestone, Jamaica and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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