20 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 20 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 20 Road in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (66) and tree cover (87). Transit (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 20 Road, with 107 reports. Across every category, 232 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (29 reports) and residential noise (24). The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 501 homes on file, that is about 46 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 20 Road carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 20 Road, 10 violations of it. 348 residential buildings on 20 Road hold the 501 homes on file, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 20 Road have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 63 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 18. That 18 on infrastructure puts 20 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 62 and cleanliness at 27. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. 20 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 20 Road is housing, at 66.
Of the 501 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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20 Road runs through Whitestone, Astoria 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).