26 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 26 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 26 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (73). Cleanliness (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 26 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 125 of them, and cleanliness ranks 26 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 26 Street holds 218 reports, and illegal parking is 57% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 27 reports, and sidewalk condition with 16. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 26 Street carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 26 Street carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 26 Street is pests, at 18 violations. Bed bugs follows at 15 violations, then doors at 12. City housing records put 603 homes in 222 residential buildings on 26 Street, 50 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 26 Street holds about 2.7 homes.
Reported crashes on 26 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 77, with parking at 39. 26 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on parking. Infrastructure ranks 75 on the same scale, with housing at 70. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 67 and transit at 63. 26 Street ranks 73 on food nearby, 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 26 Street is quietness, at 93.
About 22% of the 603 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 127 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 Street runs through Astoria, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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