203 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 203 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 203 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (97). Transit (8) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 203 Street, with 146 reports. The whole 311 file on 203 Street holds 264 reports, and illegal parking is 55% of it. After that the file runs to building and use (71 reports) and water system (50). Reports on 203 Street span 49 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 955 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 203 Street carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 203 Street is pests, at 17 violations. The housing file lists 757 residential buildings on 203 Street holding 955 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 203 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 86, with infrastructure at 17. 203 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 67 and parking at 67. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 8. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. 203 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
None of the 955 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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203 Street runs through Auburndale, St. Albans and Hollis, 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).