22 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 22 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 22 Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (71) and tree cover (92). Transit (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 22 Avenue, with 162 reports. Across every category, 383 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (69 reports) and abandoned vehicle (32). In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on 22 Avenue. About 72 reports per 100 homes sit on 22 Avenue, counting every category.
The HPD file on 22 Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 366 residential buildings and 531 homes on 22 Avenue, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 49 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 10. A 10 on parking places 22 Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 48 and cleanliness at 36. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 22 Avenue ranks 92 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
1% of the 531 homes recorded on 22 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 4 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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22 Avenue runs through Whitestone, Bay Terrace and College Point, 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).