129 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 129 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 129 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (74) and tree cover (90). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 129 Street, with 373 reports, and parking ranks 8 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,295 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 367 reports, then blocked driveway at 220. Reports on 129 Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 129 Street carries roughly 114 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 129 Street carries 15 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 129 Street, 48 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (36 violations) and structure (16). City housing records put 1,132 homes in 544 residential buildings on 129 Street, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
NYPD records 47 people injured in crashes on 129 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 129 Street ranks 63 on housing and 11 on quietness. An 11 on quietness places 129 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 35 and infrastructure at 14 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 129 Street ranks 90 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 129 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
About 3% of the 1,132 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 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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129 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).