26 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 26 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against busy avenues. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 26 Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (97). Transit (12) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 26 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 184 of them. The whole 311 file on 26 Avenue holds 612 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Maintenance or facility is the next most-filed at 105 reports, then residential noise at 81. The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,597 homes on file, that is about 38 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 5 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 26 Avenue, 15 violations of it. The housing file lists 558 residential buildings on 26 Avenue holding 1,597 homes, with 20 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 38 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 73, with infrastructure at 39. A 39 on infrastructure places 26 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 59 and cleanliness at 41 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 26 Avenue ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 26 Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is where 26 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 97.
27% of the 1,597 homes recorded on 26 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 404 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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26 Avenue runs through Murray Hill, Bay Terrace and Old 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).