23 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 23 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against busy avenues. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 23 Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and tree cover (99). Parking (16) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 23 Avenue, with 1,019 reports, and parking ranks 16 among busy avenues. Across every category, 2,219 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (221 reports) and commercial noise (207). The file runs across 97 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,080 homes on file, that is about 72 reports per 100 homes.
23 Avenue carries 23 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 23 Avenue, 46 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 30 more, and paint and lead for 27. The housing file lists 785 residential buildings on 23 Avenue holding 3,080 homes, with 129 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 118 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 77 among busy avenues and infrastructure ranks 38. A 38 on infrastructure places 23 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 72 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 62 and transit at 18. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 23 Avenue, at 99. 23 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 23 Avenue is housing, at 89.
6% of the 3,080 homes recorded on 23 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 187 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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23 Avenue runs through East Elmhurst, Bay Terrace 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).