214 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 214 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 214 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 214 Street, with 65 reports. Across every category, 237 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name residential noise. Water system is the next most-filed at 52 reports, then street condition at 45. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 214 Street carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 214 Street. 595 residential buildings on 214 Street hold the 654 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on 214 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 97, with parking at 63. That 63 on parking puts 214 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 76 and quietness at 75 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 214 Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where 214 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 654 on 214 Street.
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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214 Street runs through Queens Village, Oakland Gardens and Bayside, 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).