146 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 146 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 146 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (52) and tree cover (95). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 146 Street, with 330 reports, and parking ranks 10 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,152 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 271 reports, and residential noise with 95. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,292 homes on file, that is about 89 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 20 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 146 Street, 60 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 39 violations, then structure at 27. PLUTO counts 717 residential buildings and 1,292 homes on 146 Street, with 37 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 86 people injured in crashes on 146 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 36 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 19. 146 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 30 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 55 and transit at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 146 Street, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 146 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where 146 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 52.
About 10% of the 1,292 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 130 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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146 Street runs through Baisley Park, Murray Hill 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).