104 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 104 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against numbered streets. Access 71, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 104 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (66) and tree cover (92). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 104 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 282 of them, and cleanliness ranks 19 among numbered streets. Blocked driveway accounts for 23% of the 1,221 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 265 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 126. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,523 homes on file, that is about 80 reports per 100 homes.
104 Street carries 31 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 104 Street, 104 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 77 more, and heat and hot water for 11. City housing records put 1,523 homes in 624 residential buildings on 104 Street, 157 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.4 homes each.
Since 2021, 104 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 104 Street ranks 56 on quietness and 35 on traffic safety. A 35 on traffic safety places 104 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 55 and parking at 38. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 104 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 66.
10% of the 1,523 homes recorded on 104 Street are rent-stabilized, 152 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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104 Street runs through Richmond Hill, Corona and North Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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