24 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 24 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against busy avenues. Access 45, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 24 Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 24 Avenue, with 218 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among busy avenues. Across every category, 733 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 74 reports, then commercial noise at 59. The file runs across 76 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 24 Avenue carries roughly 53 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 10 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 24 Avenue, 40 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 34 more. PLUTO counts 647 residential buildings and 1,391 homes on 24 Avenue, with 62 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.1 homes to a building.
NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on 24 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 66, with infrastructure at 33. That 33 on infrastructure puts 24 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Traffic safety ranks 55 on the same scale, with parking at 48. Food nearby ranks 55 and transit 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 24 Avenue, at 96. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 24 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 24 Avenue is housing, at 86.
The housing file puts 2% of the 1,391 homes on 24 Avenue in rent stabilization, 32 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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24 Avenue runs through Bay Terrace, East Elmhurst 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).