106 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 106 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 106 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (85). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 106 Street, with 374 reports, and parking ranks 3 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,237 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (254 reports) and residential noise (227). The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 106 Street carries roughly 137 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 28 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 69 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (27 violations) and paint and lead (23). City housing records put 904 homes in 481 residential buildings on 106 Street, 72 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 46, with infrastructure at 8. An 8 on infrastructure places 106 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 38 on the same scale, with quietness at 18. Against every street in the city, 106 Street ranks 68 on food nearby and 61 on transit. 106 Street ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
About 2% of the 904 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 16 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.
Nearest streets in Queens
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106 Street runs through South Ozone Park, Richmond Hill and North 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).