149 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 149 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 149 Avenue in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (68) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 149 Avenue, with 207 reports. Across every category, 625 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 115 reports, and blocked driveway with 92. The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 149 Avenue carries roughly 76 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on 149 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 39 violations on file. 480 residential buildings on 149 Avenue hold the 822 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 149 Avenue have injured 57 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 51, with traffic safety at 19. 149 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 41 on the same scale, with parking at 21. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 149 Avenue ranks 98 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
1% of the 822 homes recorded on 149 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 6 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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149 Avenue runs through Rosedale, South Ozone Park and Springfield Gardens & Brookville, 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).