103 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 103 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 103 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (77). Quietness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 103 Street name drug activity than any other category, 1,868 of them. Across every category, 1,885 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 99% of them name drug activity. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (795 reports) and blocked driveway (224). Reports on 103 Street span 78 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 103 Street carries roughly 139 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 103 Street carries 41 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 103 Street, 89 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (77 violations) and paint and lead (58). The housing file lists 469 residential buildings on 103 Street holding 1,356 homes, with 143 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 69 among numbered streets and parking ranks 33. That 33 on parking puts 103 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 64 and housing at 64. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 103 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 103 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
9% of the 1,356 homes recorded on 103 Street are rent-stabilized, 120 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 Street runs through North Corona, Ozone Park and Corona, 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).