118 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 118 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 62, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 118 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (86) and tree cover (94). Parking (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 118 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 563 of them, and parking ranks 21 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 34% of the 1,650 reports on file here. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 331 reports, then heat and hot water at 317. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,217 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.
118 Street carries 99 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 118 Street, 127 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 110 violations, then doors at 98. 639 residential buildings on 118 Street hold the 2,217 homes on file, 60 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 3.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 43 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 71, with infrastructure at 32. That 32 on infrastructure puts 118 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 40 on the same scale, with quietness at 38. Food nearby ranks 67 and transit 47, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 118 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 118 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 118 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
About 21% of the 2,217 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 456 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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118 Street runs through South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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