23 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 23 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 23 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (66) and tree cover (91). Infrastructure (18) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 23 Street, with 457 reports. Across every category, 1,086 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (95 reports) and residential noise (92). In all, 77 distinct 311 categories are represented on 23 Street. The 311 file works out to about 67 reports for every 100 homes on 23 Street.
HPD has cited 56 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 23 Street is pests, at 87 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 65 more, and doors for 49. PLUTO counts 390 residential buildings and 1,611 homes on 23 Street, with 164 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Since 2021, 65 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 50, with cleanliness at 22. A 22 on cleanliness places 23 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 39 and parking at 27. The citywide frame puts transit at 87 and food nearby at 85. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 23 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 23 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 66.
The housing file puts 9% of the 1,611 homes on 23 Street in rent stabilization, 146 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 Street runs through Astoria, Queensbridge and Long Island City, 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).