109 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 109 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 109 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (76) and tree cover (88). Parking (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 109 Street, with 251 reports, and parking ranks 8 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 109 Street holds 963 reports, and illegal parking is 26% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (209 reports) and residential noise (90). In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 109 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 109 Street carries roughly 105 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 109 Street carries 18 Class C violations, 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 109 Street, 32 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 27 violations, then doors at 14. City housing records put 921 homes in 496 residential buildings on 109 Street, 57 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 109 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 63, with quietness at 18. That 18 on quietness puts 109 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 43 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 23. Transit ranks 70 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 109 Street, at 88. 109 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 109 Street is cleanliness, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 921 homes on file, 58 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 Street runs through Richmond Hill, South Ozone Park and South Richmond Hill, 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).