104 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 104 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 104 Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (91) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 104 Avenue, with 54 reports. Across every category, 334 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 51 reports, then blocked driveway at 44. In all, 58 distinct 311 categories are represented on 104 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 104 Avenue carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 104 Avenue carries 4 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 104 Avenue, 24 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead, at 14 violations. 455 residential buildings on 104 Avenue hold the 564 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 62 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 104 Avenue ranks 71 on housing and 10 on traffic safety. 104 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 60 and parking at 40. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 14. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. 104 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where 104 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 91.
Of the 564 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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104 Avenue runs through Queens Village, Hollis and South 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).