122 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 122 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 37, 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 122 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (79) and tree cover (90). Parking (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 122 Street, with 228 reports, and parking ranks 9 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 122 Street holds 841 reports, and illegal parking is 27% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 200 reports, then blocked driveway at 153. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on 122 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 122 Street carries roughly 114 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 2 Class C violations on 122 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 29 violations on file. 465 residential buildings on 122 Street hold the 735 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 51 people injured in crashes on 122 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 47 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 12. That 12 on quietness puts 122 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 26 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 57 and transit at 45. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 122 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 122 Street is housing, at 79.
About 1% of the 735 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 10 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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122 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and Kew Gardens, 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).