18 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 18 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 18 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and food nearby (51). Housing (24) 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 18 Street, with 53 reports. Across every category, 330 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (33 reports) and heat and hot water (21). In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on 18 Street. The 311 file works out to about 78 reports for every 100 homes on 18 Street.
The HPD file on 18 Street carries 49 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 18 Street, 27 violations of it. Pests follows at 22 violations, then paint and lead at 19. City housing records put 421 homes in 48 residential buildings on 18 Street, 31 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.8 homes each.
Reported crashes on 18 Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 18 Street ranks 84 on traffic safety and 31 on quietness. That 31 on quietness puts 18 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 82 and parking at 51 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 46 and transit 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 18 Street, at 51. 18 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
52% of the 421 homes recorded on 18 Street are rent-stabilized, 220 homes in all.
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 Street runs through Old Astoria 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).