106 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 106 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 106 Avenue in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (55) and tree cover (77). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 106 Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 48 of them, and cleanliness ranks 14 among smaller avenues. The whole 311 file on 106 Avenue holds 283 reports, and residential noise is 17% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 41 reports, then derelict vehicles at 37. Reports on 106 Avenue span 50 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 106 Avenue carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 20 Class C violations on 106 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 48 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 19 violations, then heat and hot water at 12. The housing file lists 279 residential buildings on 106 Avenue holding 461 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on 106 Avenue since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, 106 Avenue ranks 43 on traffic safety and 15 on housing. A 15 on housing places 106 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 42 on the same scale, with quietness at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and transit at 21. 106 Avenue ranks 77 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 55.
Of the 461 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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106 Avenue runs through Queens Village, Jamaica 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).