103 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 103 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 103 Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (50) and tree cover (93). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 103 Avenue, with 355 reports, and parking ranks 2 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,224 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 292 reports, and residential noise with 122. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on 103 Avenue. Set against the 971 homes on file, that is about 126 reports per 100 homes.
103 Avenue carries 24 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 103 Avenue, 46 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 27 more, and paint and lead for 13. 574 residential buildings on 103 Avenue hold the 971 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 148 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 22, with infrastructure at 3. 103 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 21 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 5. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 75 and transit at 48. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 103 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 47.
The housing file puts 4% of the 971 homes on 103 Avenue in rent stabilization, 40 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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103 Avenue runs through South Richmond Hill, Ozone Park and Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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