209 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 209 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 209 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (11) 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 209 Street, with 198 reports. Across every category, 437 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 87 reports, and water system with 47. The file runs across 52 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 209 Street carries roughly 49 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 209 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 209 Street, 22 violations of it. PLUTO counts 653 residential buildings and 890 homes on 209 Street, with 21 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 209 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 75, with parking at 41. That 41 on parking puts 209 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 61 and quietness at 44 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 209 Street is housing, at 88.
Of the 890 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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209 Street runs through Queens Village, Bayside and Oakland Gardens, 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).