21 Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 21 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 21 Drive in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and tree cover (42). Transit (30) 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 21 Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 32 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 55% of the 58 reports on file here. Reports on 21 Drive span 23 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 173 homes on file, that is about 34 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 21 Drive holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 21 Drive is bed bugs, at 19 violations. Pests accounts for 11 more. 56 residential buildings on 21 Drive hold the 173 homes on file, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 21 Drive holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on 21 Drive have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, 21 Drive ranks 94 on cleanliness and 35 on housing. That 35 on housing puts 21 Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 68 and parking at 43 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 31 and transit 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 21 Drive, at 42. 21 Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 21 Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 97.
The housing file puts 4% of the 173 homes on 21 Drive in rent stabilization, 6 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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21 Drive 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).