147 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 147 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 147 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (45) and tree cover (98). Transit (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 147 Street, with 322 reports. Across every category, 1,285 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (284 reports) and residential noise (183). The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,733 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.
147 Street carries 68 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 147 Street, 64 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 31 violations, then plumbing at 17. 689 residential buildings on 147 Street hold the 1,733 homes on file, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 80 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 147 Street ranks 40 on cleanliness and 23 on parking. A 23 on parking places 147 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 32 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 27. Against every street in the city, 147 Street ranks 45 on food nearby and 20 on transit. 147 Street ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 147 Street is housing, at 45.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 1,733 homes on file, 433 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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147 Street runs through Baisley Park, Whitestone and Kew Gardens Hills, 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).