144 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 144 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 144 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (85). Transit (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 144 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 86 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 15% of the 568 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 62 reports, then residential noise at 54. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 898 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
144 Street carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 144 Street, 29 violations of it. City housing records put 898 homes in 453 residential buildings on 144 Street, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 54, with parking at 29. A 29 on parking places 144 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 35 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 34. Against every street in the city, 144 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 19 on transit. 144 Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
16% of the 898 homes recorded on 144 Street are rent-stabilized, 143 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 Street runs through Baisley Park, Jamaica Hills and Whitestone, 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).