118 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does 118 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 118 Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (40) and tree cover (82). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 118 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 118 Avenue have injured 85 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among smaller avenues. The 311 file on 118 Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 147 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 34% of the 431 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 113 reports, and blocked driveway with 78. In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on 118 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 118 Avenue carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 118 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 118 Avenue, 21 violations of it. The housing file lists 395 residential buildings on 118 Avenue holding 494 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 35 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 12. That 12 on parking puts 118 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 24 and quietness at 12. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 118 Avenue ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 118 Avenue is housing, at 40.
None of the 494 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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118 Avenue runs through St. Albans, Cambria Heights and Baisley Park, 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).