148 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 148 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 148 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (94). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 148 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 148 Street have injured 98 people, and traffic safety ranks 12 among numbered streets. Residential noise draws more reports than anything else here, 161 of them. Across every category, 642 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (85 reports) and illegal parking (72). In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on 148 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 148 Street carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 148 Street carries 36 Class C violations, 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 148 Street, 42 violations of it. Doors follows at 30 violations, then heat and hot water at 29. City housing records put 1,200 homes in 499 residential buildings on 148 Street, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 148 Street holds about 2.4 homes.
Among numbered streets, 148 Street ranks 59 on parking and 23 on quietness. That 23 on quietness puts 148 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 56 and housing at 54. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 28. 148 Street ranks 94 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 148 Street is cleanliness, at 76.
About 37% of the 1,200 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 441 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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148 Street runs through Baisley Park, Jamaica 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).