101 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does 101 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 101 Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and tree cover (93). Transit (46) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway leads the 311 file on 101 Avenue, with 468 reports. Across every category, 2,303 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name blocked driveway. After that the file runs to illegal parking (433 reports) and residential noise (153). The file runs across 101 distinct 311 categories in all. About 141 reports per 100 homes sit on 101 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 130 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 101 Avenue, 196 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (130 violations) and doors (56). City housing records put 1,630 homes in 648 residential buildings on 101 Avenue, 128 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 206 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 101 Avenue ranks 85 on infrastructure and 49 on traffic safety. That 49 on traffic safety puts 101 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 76 and parking at 55 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. 101 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 101 Avenue is quietness, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 3% of the 1,630 homes on file, 55 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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101 Avenue runs through Ozone Park, South Richmond Hill and Jamaica, 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).