14 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 14 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against busy avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 14 Avenue in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 14 Avenue, with 300 reports. The whole 311 file on 14 Avenue holds 669 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. Commercial noise follows with 92 reports, and blocked driveway with 59. Reports on 14 Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 137 reports for every 100 homes on 14 Avenue.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on 14 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 341 residential buildings on 14 Avenue holding 487 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 69 people injured in crashes on 14 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 86, with parking at 4. That 4 on parking puts 14 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 81 and traffic safety at 18. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 14 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 14 Avenue is housing, at 96.
None of the 487 homes on file 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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14 Avenue runs through College Point, Whitestone and Astoria, 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).