125 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 125 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.

Calm 31, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 125 Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (90) and food nearby (55). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on 125 Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 56 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of smaller avenues. Across every category, 195 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 37 reports, then animal-abuse at 27. In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on 125 Avenue. Set against the 156 homes on file, that is about 125 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on 125 Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 125 Avenue, 14 violations of it. The housing file lists 111 residential buildings on 125 Avenue holding 156 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 78, with housing at 13. 125 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 18 and traffic safety at 17. Against every street in the city, 125 Avenue ranks 53 on tree cover and 23 on transit. 125 Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 125 Avenue is scored inside.

Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.

Of the 156 homes on file, none 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

125 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village, Baisley Park and Laurelton, 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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