2 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 2 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 86, ranked against numbered streets. Access 18, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 2 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and food nearby (23). Tree cover (10) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 2 Street, with 127 reports. Across every category, 440 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 47 reports, and residential noise with 26. Reports on 2 Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 2 Street carries roughly 27 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 8 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 12 residential buildings on 2 Street hold the 1,635 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 136 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 98, with parking at 53. 2 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 83 and cleanliness at 71. Transit ranks 19 and tree cover 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 2 Street, at 23. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 2 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
14% of the 1,635 homes recorded on 2 Street are rent-stabilized, 233 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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2 Street runs through Long Island City, Old Astoria and Rosedale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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