22 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 22 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 22 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and transit (83). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 22 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 22 Street have injured 35 people, and traffic safety ranks 2 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Encampment is the most-filed, with 65 reports. Across every category, 115 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to illegal parking (57 reports) and water system (32). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on 22 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 22 Street carries roughly 69 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. 26 residential buildings on 22 Street hold the 166 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.4 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, 22 Street ranks 94 on cleanliness and 15 on parking. 22 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts housing at 80 and infrastructure at 17 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 22 Street ranks 83 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 22 Street is quietness, at 94.
7% of the 166 homes recorded on 22 Street are rent-stabilized, 12 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 Street runs through Queensbridge, Long Island City and 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).