149 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 149 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 149 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (85) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 149 Street. 119 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 16 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 149 Street, with 178 reports. The whole 311 file on 149 Street holds 827 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (157 reports) and blocked driveway (141). In all, 83 distinct 311 categories are represented on 149 Street. About 54 reports per 100 homes sit on 149 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 149 Street carries 50 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 149 Street, 64 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 30 violations, then doors at 29. PLUTO counts 579 residential buildings and 1,532 homes on 149 Street, with 46 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 69, with parking at 41. That 41 on parking puts 149 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 53 and quietness at 47 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 33, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 149 Street, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 149 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 30% of the 1,532 homes on file, 459 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 Street runs through Whitestone, Murray Hill and Baisley Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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