120 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 120 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 120 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (53) and tree cover (94). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 120 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 540 of them, and parking ranks 2 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 120 Street holds 2,412 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (526 reports) and blocked driveway (517). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. About 143 reports per 100 homes sit on 120 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 53 Class C violations on 120 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 120 Street is pests, at 77 violations. Bed bugs follows at 51 violations, then paint and lead at 26. City housing records put 1,682 homes in 744 residential buildings on 120 Street, 73 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 76 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 28 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 13. A 13 on quietness places 120 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 24 and infrastructure at 18. Against every street in the city, 120 Street ranks 63 on food nearby and 41 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. 120 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 53.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 1,682 homes on file, 307 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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120 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and South Richmond Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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