15 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 34 out of 100. How does 15 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 34 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 15 Avenue in the bottom 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (50) and tree cover (85). Transit (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 15 Avenue, with 200 reports. The whole 311 file on 15 Avenue holds 410 reports, and illegal parking is 49% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 44 reports, then abandoned vehicle at 41. The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 396 homes on file, that is about 104 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 15 Avenue carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 15 Avenue, 11 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 11 violations. The housing file lists 138 residential buildings on 15 Avenue holding 396 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 20 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, 15 Avenue ranks 40 on cleanliness and 12 on parking. A 12 on parking places 15 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 33 and quietness at 22 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 15 Avenue ranks 85 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band 15 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where 15 Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 50.
None of the 396 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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15 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).