125 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 125 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 125 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (64) and tree cover (97). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 125 Street, with 593 reports, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,707 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 276 reports, then residential noise at 229. In all, 79 distinct 311 categories are represented on 125 Street. Set against the 1,554 homes on file, that is about 110 reports per 100 homes.
125 Street carries 48 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 125 Street, 58 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (17 violations) and doors (16). The housing file lists 851 residential buildings on 125 Street holding 1,554 homes, with 49 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 43 people injured in crashes on 125 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 52, with quietness at 15. A 15 on quietness places 125 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 46 and housing at 45. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. 125 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where 125 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 64.
About 8% of the 1,554 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 122 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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125 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).