16 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 16 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 16 Avenue in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (100) and tree cover (79). Transit (15) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 16 Avenue, with 38 reports. Across every category, 106 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to water system (34 reports) and blocked driveway (12). In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on 16 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 22 reports for every 100 homes on 16 Avenue.
The HPD file on 16 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 83 residential buildings on 16 Avenue hold the 477 homes on file, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 5 people injured in crashes on 16 Avenue since 2021.
Against smaller avenues, housing comes in at 99, with traffic safety at 53. 16 Avenue sits in the stronger half of smaller avenues on traffic safety. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 82 and infrastructure at 55. Against every street in the city, 16 Avenue ranks 18 on food nearby and 15 on transit. 16 Avenue ranks 79 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
Of the 477 homes on file, none 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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16 Avenue runs through Bay Terrace, Astoria and Whitestone, 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).