122 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 17 out of 100. How does 122 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 17 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 122 Avenue in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (49) and tree cover (76). Transit (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 122 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 122 Avenue have injured 33 people, and traffic safety ranks 7 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 32 reports. The whole 311 file on 122 Avenue holds 242 reports, and illegal parking is 13% of it. Residential noise follows with 29 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 23. In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on 122 Avenue. About 99 reports per 100 homes sit on 122 Avenue, counting every category.
122 Avenue carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 122 Avenue is pests, at 23 violations. 191 residential buildings on 122 Avenue hold the 244 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 22, with quietness at 6. That 6 on quietness puts 122 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 12 and traffic safety at 7 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 3, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 76. 122 Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Parking is where 122 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 49.
None of the 244 homes on file 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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122 Avenue runs through St. Albans and Baisley Park, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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