124 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 124 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 124 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (61) and tree cover (95). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 124 Street, with 555 reports, and parking ranks 3 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,563 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (236 reports) and residential noise (183). The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. About 115 reports per 100 homes sit on 124 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 38 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 124 Street is pests, at 61 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 23 more, and heat and hot water for 22. PLUTO counts 790 residential buildings and 1,357 homes on 124 Street, with 55 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 39 people injured in crashes on 124 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 47 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 44. A 44 on infrastructure places 124 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 46 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 45. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 51 and transit at 23. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. 124 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
The housing file puts 3% of the 1,357 homes on 124 Street in rent stabilization, 38 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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124 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).