108 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 108 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.

Calm 28, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.

That puts 108 Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (78). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.

On the record

NYPD collision records are what stand out on 108 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 108 Avenue have injured 26 people, and traffic safety ranks 13 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed, with 120 reports. Across every category, 275 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 90 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 67. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on 108 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 68 reports for every 100 homes on 108 Avenue.

108 Avenue carries 13 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 46 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (18 violations) and heat and hot water (15). 270 residential buildings on 108 Avenue hold the 402 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 37, with traffic safety at 13. A 13 on traffic safety places 108 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 30 on the same scale, with quietness at 16. Against every street in the city, 108 Avenue ranks 36 on transit and 35 on food nearby. 108 Avenue ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.

Cleanliness is where 108 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 99.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 402 on 108 Avenue.

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

108 Avenue runs through South Jamaica, Queens Village and Ozone Park, 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).

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