109 Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 28 out of 100. How does 109 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 28 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against busy avenues. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 109 Avenue in the bottom 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (49) and tree cover (98). Traffic safety (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 109 Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on 109 Avenue have injured 208 people, and traffic safety ranks 5 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 109 Avenue, with 338 reports. The whole 311 file on 109 Avenue holds 1,327 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (283 reports) and illegal parking (219). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on 109 Avenue. Set against the 1,398 homes on file, that is about 95 reports per 100 homes.
109 Avenue carries 58 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 109 Avenue is pests, at 73 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (14 violations) and bed bugs (12). City housing records put 1,398 homes in 795 residential buildings on 109 Avenue, 30 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 22 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 6. A 6 on infrastructure places 109 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 15 and parking at 14. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 42 and transit at 23. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 49.
About 4% of the 1,398 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 51 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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109 Avenue runs through South Jamaica, South Ozone Park and Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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