18 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 18 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against busy avenues. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 18 Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and tree cover (84). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 18 Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 154 of them. The whole 311 file on 18 Avenue holds 391 reports, and residential noise is 39% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 118 reports, then blocked driveway at 64. Reports on 18 Avenue span 47 distinct 311 categories. About 50 reports per 100 homes sit on 18 Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on 18 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 10 violations on file. 221 residential buildings on 18 Avenue hold the 776 homes on file, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 18 Avenue holds about 3.5 homes.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 90 among busy avenues and parking ranks 35. That 35 on parking puts 18 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 85 and infrastructure at 53 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 84. 18 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 776 on 18 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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18 Avenue runs through Whitestone, College Point 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).