126 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 126 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 126 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (63) and tree cover (97). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 126 Street, with 530 reports, and parking ranks 4 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,573 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 245 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 219. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,332 homes on file, that is about 118 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 126 Street is pests, at 65 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 20 more, and doors for 12. PLUTO counts 818 residential buildings and 1,332 homes on 126 Street, with 61 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 126 Street have injured 49 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 36 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 22. That 22 on infrastructure puts 126 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 36 and quietness at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 48 and transit at 26. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 126 Street, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 126 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 126 Street is housing, at 63.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 1,332 homes on file, 20 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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126 Street runs through South Ozone Park, College Point and 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).