102 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 102 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.

Calm 25, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 102 Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (46) and tree cover (74). Parking (4) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 102 Avenue, with 122 reports, and parking ranks 4 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 651 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 108 reports, and residential noise with 58. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on 102 Avenue. Set against the 515 homes on file, that is about 126 reports per 100 homes.

102 Avenue carries 19 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 46 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (20 violations) and paint and lead (13). 273 residential buildings on 102 Avenue hold the 515 homes on file, 40 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Among smaller avenues, 102 Avenue ranks 40 on infrastructure and 17 on cleanliness. That 17 on cleanliness puts 102 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 18 and housing at 18 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 28, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 102 Avenue, at 74. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 102 Avenue is scored inside.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 46.

About 5% of the 515 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 28 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

102 Avenue runs through Queens Village, Ozone Park 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).

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