208 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 208 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 208 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (57) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on 208 Street, with 339 reports. The whole 311 file on 208 Street holds 783 reports, and heat and hot water is 43% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 203 reports, then illegal parking at 99. The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,053 homes on file, that is about 74 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 208 Street carries 80 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 208 Street, 68 violations of it. Pests follows at 56 violations, then paint and lead at 23. The housing file lists 853 residential buildings on 208 Street holding 1,053 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 208 Street have injured 27 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 56 among numbered streets and housing ranks 32. A 32 on housing places 208 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 48 and quietness at 33. Against every street in the city, 208 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. 208 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 208 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 57.
1% of the 1,053 homes recorded on 208 Street are rent-stabilized, 12 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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208 Street runs through Bayside, Queens Village and Jamaica Estates, 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).