120 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 120 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against busy avenues. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 120 Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 120 Avenue, with 224 reports. The whole 311 file on 120 Avenue holds 574 reports, and illegal parking is 39% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 74 reports, and residential noise with 56. Reports on 120 Avenue span 63 distinct 311 categories. About 81 reports per 100 homes sit on 120 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 120 Avenue carries 7 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 120 Avenue, 42 violations of it. The housing file lists 458 residential buildings on 120 Avenue holding 706 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 120 Avenue have injured 154 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 120 Avenue ranks 63 on quietness and 2 on traffic safety. A 2 on traffic safety places 120 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 28 and cleanliness at 25. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 9. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 120 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
The housing file puts 10% of the 706 homes on 120 Avenue in rent stabilization, 72 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
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120 Avenue runs through Baisley Park, St. Albans and Cambria Heights, 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).