21 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does 21 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 21 Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (68) and tree cover (95). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 21 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 418 of them, and cleanliness ranks 3 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,668 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (393 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (132). Reports on 21 Street span 99 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,635 homes on file, that is about 102 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 42 Class C violations on 21 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 37 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 30 violations. 250 residential buildings on 21 Street hold the 1,635 homes on file, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 23 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 6.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 21 Street have injured 347 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 32 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 3. That 3 on traffic safety puts 21 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 20 and quietness at 16 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 74 and transit 70, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. 21 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is where 21 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 39% of the 1,635 homes on file, 642 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 Street runs through Astoria, Queensbridge and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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