17 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 17 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 17 Road in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (82). Transit (13) 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 17 Road, with 103 reports. Across every category, 205 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (31 reports) and illegal fireworks (15). In all, 38 distinct 311 categories are represented on 17 Road. Set against the 532 homes on file, that is about 39 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 17 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 183 residential buildings on 17 Road hold the 532 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.9 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 91 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 18. That 18 on parking puts 17 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 75 and infrastructure at 31 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, 17 Road ranks 31 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 17 Road, at 82. 17 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is where 17 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
Of the 532 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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17 Road runs through Whitestone and Bay Terrace, 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).