19 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 19 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.

Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 19 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (81) and tree cover (82). Transit (23) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Maintenance or facility is the most-filed complaint on 19 Street, with 179 reports. The whole 311 file on 19 Street holds 196 reports, and maintenance or facility is 91% of it. After that the file runs to animal in a park (65 reports) and illegal parking (47). In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on 19 Street. The 311 file works out to about 48 reports for every 100 homes on 19 Street.

19 Street carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 10 violations on file. 88 residential buildings on 19 Street hold the 408 homes on file, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 19 Street holds about 4.6 homes.

Reported crashes on 19 Street have injured 6 people since 2021.

Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 40. 19 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 48 on the same scale, with quietness at 41. Against every street in the city, 19 Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 23 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Traffic safety is where 19 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 81.

22% of the 408 homes recorded on 19 Street are rent-stabilized, 88 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

19 Street runs through 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).

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