205 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 205 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 205 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (78) and tree cover (97). Transit (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 205 Street, with 64 reports. The whole 311 file on 205 Street holds 371 reports, and illegal parking is 17% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 52 reports, and residential noise with 36. Reports on 205 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 43 reports for every 100 homes on 205 Street.
The HPD file on 205 Street carries 2 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 205 Street is pests, at 31 violations. 733 residential buildings on 205 Street hold the 869 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 205 Street have injured 47 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 62 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 11. That 11 on infrastructure puts 205 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 55 and traffic safety at 23 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 205 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 the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
Of the 869 homes on file, none 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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205 Street runs through Hollis, Auburndale 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).