117 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 117 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 117 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (80) and tree cover (93). Quietness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 117 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 427 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 37% of the 1,153 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 355 reports, and residential noise with 317. The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,203 homes on file, that is about 96 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 117 Street carries 13 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 117 Street is pests, at 28 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 11 violations. City housing records put 1,203 homes in 680 residential buildings on 117 Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 117 Street have injured 34 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 65, with parking at 18. 117 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Traffic safety ranks 38 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 63 and transit at 48. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 117 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.
4% of the 1,203 homes recorded on 117 Street are rent-stabilized, 52 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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117 Street runs through South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and College Point, 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).