14 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 14 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 14 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and tree cover (71). Cleanliness (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 14 Street, with 144 reports, and cleanliness ranks 38 among numbered streets. Across every category, 667 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 81 reports, and street condition with 57. Reports on 14 Street span 76 distinct 311 categories. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on 14 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 14 Street carries 42 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 14 Street, 56 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 40 more, and paint and lead for 23. City housing records put 966 homes in 177 residential buildings on 14 Street, 63 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 14 Street holds about 5.5 homes.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 47, with parking at 39. That 39 on parking puts 14 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 47 and infrastructure at 39 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 69 and transit 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 14 Street, at 71. 14 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 14 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
About 13% of the 966 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 124 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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14 Street runs through Old Astoria and Queensbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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