21 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 21 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 21 Road in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (78). Transit (10) 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 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 118 of them. Across every category, 152 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 78% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (15 reports) and street condition (14). The file runs across 36 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 327 homes on file, that is about 46 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 21 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 21 Road is bed bugs, at 27 violations. Pests accounts for 21 more. 186 residential buildings on 21 Road hold the 327 homes on file, 33 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 78 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 21. 21 Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 59 and infrastructure at 31 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 21 Road ranks 78 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 21 Road is cleanliness, at 89.
2% of the 327 homes recorded on 21 Road are rent-stabilized, 7 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 Road runs through Bay Terrace, Astoria and Murray Hill, 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).