121 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does 121 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 121 Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (59) and tree cover (83). Transit (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 121 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 121 Avenue have injured 27 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 100 reports. Across every category, 173 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (43 reports) and abandoned vehicle (33). In all, 42 distinct 311 categories are represented on 121 Avenue. Set against the 250 homes on file, that is about 69 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 121 Avenue carries 1 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 250 homes in 201 residential buildings on 121 Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 42 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 7. 121 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, cleanliness sits at 16 and parking at 15. Against every street in the city, 121 Avenue ranks 23 on food nearby and 6 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 121 Avenue, at 83. 121 Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 121 Avenue is housing, at 59.
Of the 250 homes on file, none 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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121 Avenue runs through Cambria Heights, Baisley Park and St. Albans, 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).