204 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 204 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 204 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (95) and tree cover (98). 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 is the most-filed complaint on 204 Street, with 159 reports. Across every category, 475 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (76 reports) and abandoned vehicle (50). Reports on 204 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 204 Street carries roughly 29 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on 204 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 204 Street is pests, at 40 violations. Mold follows at 10 violations. PLUTO counts 914 residential buildings and 1,663 homes on 204 Street, with 8 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them.

Reported crashes on 204 Street have injured 69 people since 2021.

Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 91, with infrastructure at 28. A 28 on infrastructure places 204 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 91 and traffic safety at 33 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 204 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. 204 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 204 Street is quietness, at 95.

None of the 1,663 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

204 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).

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