202 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 202 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 202 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (6) 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 202 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 120 of them. The whole 311 file on 202 Street holds 542 reports, and illegal parking is 22% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 92 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 68. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,355 homes on file, that is about 40 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on 202 Street, 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 202 Street, 25 violations of it. 1,015 residential buildings on 202 Street hold the 1,355 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 42 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 202 Street ranks 78 on quietness and 48 on traffic safety. 202 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 67 on the same scale, with parking at 51. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 31 and transit at 7. 202 Street ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 202 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 94.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,355 on 202 Street.
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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202 Street runs through Auburndale, Hollis and St. Albans, 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).