121 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 121 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 121 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (56) and tree cover (96). Parking (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 121 Street name residential noise than any other category, 294 of them, and parking ranks 16 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 121 Street holds 1,182 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 240 reports, then illegal parking at 209. Reports on 121 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on 121 Street.
HPD has cited 45 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 95 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 40 more, and bed bugs for 26. The housing file lists 735 residential buildings on 121 Street holding 1,370 homes, with 53 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 71 people injured in crashes on 121 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 47 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 23. That 23 on traffic safety puts 121 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 32 and quietness at 26. Food nearby ranks 68 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 121 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 121 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 121 Street is cleanliness, at 56.
The housing file puts 4% of the 1,370 homes on 121 Street in rent stabilization, 54 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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121 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and Richmond Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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