126 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 126 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 126 Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (83) and food nearby (57). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 126 Avenue, with 36 reports. Across every category, 96 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed, with 12 reports. In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on 126 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 126 Avenue carries roughly 83 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 126 Avenue, 10 violations of it. PLUTO counts 83 residential buildings and 116 homes on 126 Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 31, with quietness at 13. A 13 on quietness places 126 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, traffic safety sits at 27 and housing at 22. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 44 and transit at 33. 126 Avenue ranks 57 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 116 on 126 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.
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126 Avenue runs through Springfield Gardens & Rochdale Village 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).