145 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does 145 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 145 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (76) and tree cover (88). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 145 Street, with 130 reports. Across every category, 531 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 75 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 38. In all, 54 distinct 311 categories are represented on 145 Street. The 311 file works out to about 91 reports for every 100 homes on 145 Street.
The HPD file on 145 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 145 Street, 27 violations of it. 441 residential buildings on 145 Street hold the 582 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 21 people injured in crashes on 145 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 60, with parking at 8. That 8 on parking puts 145 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 39 on the same scale, with quietness at 24. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 25. 145 Street ranks 88 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 145 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 582 on 145 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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145 Street runs through Baisley Park, Jamaica and Murray Hill, 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).