Steinway Street, Queens NYC — Astoria's Shopping Hub | 2026
Steinway Street is Astoria's main commercial strip. Diverse dining, local shops, and N/W access. Safety and noise scores inside.
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Steinway Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (62) and tree cover (93). Traffic safety (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Steinway Street. Reported crashes here have injured 174 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 27 among built-up residential streets. The 311 file on Steinway Street is led by illegal parking, with 614 reports. Across every category, 2,992 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (550 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (165). Reports on Steinway Street span 105 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Steinway Street carries roughly 165 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Steinway Street carries 142 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Steinway Street, 136 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 100 more, and paint and lead for 77. 364 residential buildings on Steinway Street hold the 1,817 homes on file, 116 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5 homes to a building.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 52, with quietness at 35. Steinway Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 46 on the same scale, with parking at 44. Against every street in the city, Steinway Street ranks 90 on food nearby and 59 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Steinway Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
33% of the 1,817 homes recorded on Steinway Street are rent-stabilized, 599 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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Steinway Street runs through Astoria and Astoria & Woodside, 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).