123 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 123 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 51, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 123 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (83) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 123 Street, with 362 reports. The whole 311 file on 123 Street holds 1,249 reports, and illegal parking is 29% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 281 reports, then blocked driveway at 260. Reports on 123 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 123 Street carries roughly 90 reports per 100 of them.
123 Street carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 40 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 16 more. 799 residential buildings on 123 Street hold the 1,389 homes on file, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 123 Street have injured 83 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 66, with parking at 10. 123 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 22 and traffic safety at 20. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 123 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,389 on 123 Street.
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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123 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and South Richmond Hill, 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).