124 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 124 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 70, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 14, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts 124 Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on infrastructure (96) and food nearby (23). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 124 Avenue, with 25 reports. In all, 5 distinct 311 categories are represented on 124 Avenue.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 124 Avenue. City housing records put 36 homes in 19 residential buildings on 124 Avenue, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, reported crashes on 124 Avenue have injured no one.

Against smaller avenues, quietness comes in at 87, with parking at 48. 124 Avenue sits in the weaker half of smaller avenues on parking. Housing ranks 68 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 53. Tree cover ranks 18 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 124 Avenue, at 23. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 124 Avenue is infrastructure, at 96.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 36 on 124 Avenue.

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.

Nearest streets in Queens

124 Avenue runs through Baisley Park, 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).

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