147 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 23 out of 100. How does 147 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 23 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 147 Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (45) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 147 Avenue. 81 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 147 Avenue, with 165 reports. The whole 311 file on 147 Avenue holds 371 reports, and illegal parking is 44% of it. After that the file runs to street condition (67 reports) and residential noise (53). In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on 147 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 147 Avenue carries roughly 93 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 147 Avenue, 21 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead, at 14 violations. 265 residential buildings on 147 Avenue hold the 398 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 20, with infrastructure at 13. 147 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 20 and quietness at 14 among smaller avenues. Against every street in the city, 147 Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby and 7 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 147 Avenue, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where 147 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 33.
None of the 398 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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147 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Brookville and Rosedale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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