20 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 20 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 89, ranked against numbered streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 20 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and tree cover (50). Food nearby (18) 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 20 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 40 of them. The whole 311 file on 20 Street holds 46 reports, and heat and hot water is 87% of it. Behind it sits residential noise, with 16 reports. In all, 24 distinct 311 categories are represented on 20 Street. Set against the 312 homes on file, that is about 15 reports per 100 homes.
20 Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 312 homes in 5 residential buildings on 20 Street, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 62 homes each.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 100 among numbered streets and housing ranks 61. 20 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts parking at 95 and cleanliness at 75 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 20 Street ranks 28 on transit and 18 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 20 Street, at 50. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where 20 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 100.
About 62% of the 312 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 192 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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20 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).