17 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does 17 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against busy avenues. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 17 Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (82). Transit (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 17 Avenue, with 49 reports. Across every category, 162 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then illegal fireworks at 25. The file runs across 32 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 684 homes on file, that is about 24 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 15 Class C violations on 17 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 163 residential buildings on 17 Avenue holding 684 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.2 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 17 Avenue have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 80, with cleanliness at 60. 17 Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 77 and parking at 61 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 17 Avenue ranks 82 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 17 Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where 17 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 684 on 17 Avenue.
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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17 Avenue runs through Whitestone, Bay Terrace and Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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