212 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 212 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 212 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (78) and tree cover (99). Transit (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 212 Street name residential noise than any other category, 265 of them. Across every category, 736 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 165 reports, and blocked driveway with 83. Reports on 212 Street span 69 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 54 reports for every 100 homes on 212 Street.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on 212 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 212 Street is pests, at 19 violations. City housing records put 1,351 homes in 838 residential buildings on 212 Street, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 80 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 212 Street ranks 70 on housing and 10 on infrastructure. A 10 on infrastructure places 212 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 57 and traffic safety at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 9. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 212 Street, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 212 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 212 Street is cleanliness, at 78.
6% of the 1,351 homes recorded on 212 Street are rent-stabilized, 75 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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212 Street runs through Bayside, Queens Village 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).