20 Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does 20 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against busy avenues. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 20 Avenue in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (74) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 20 Avenue, with 332 reports. The whole 311 file on 20 Avenue holds 985 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (95 reports) and street condition (76). Reports on 20 Avenue span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 654 homes on file, that is about 151 reports per 100 homes.
20 Avenue carries 9 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 20 Avenue is pests, at 28 violations. Bed bugs follows at 11 violations. 386 residential buildings on 20 Avenue hold the 654 homes on file, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 128 people injured in crashes on 20 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 20 Avenue ranks 46 on quietness and 3 on parking. A 3 on parking places 20 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 12 and traffic safety at 6. Against every street in the city, 20 Avenue ranks 55 on food nearby and 10 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 20 Avenue is housing, at 74.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 654 on 20 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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20 Avenue runs through Astoria, College Point and Whitestone, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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