215 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 215 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 215 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (92) and tree cover (99). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 215 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 184 of them. The whole 311 file on 215 Street holds 528 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Residential noise follows with 84 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 71. Reports on 215 Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 2,029 homes on file, that is about 26 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 215 Street is pests, at 34 violations. City housing records put 2,029 homes in 881 residential buildings on 215 Street, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on 215 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 91, with infrastructure at 31. That 31 on infrastructure puts 215 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 89 and cleanliness at 44. Food nearby ranks 67 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 215 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 215 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
1% of the 2,029 homes recorded on 215 Street are rent-stabilized, 15 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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215 Street runs through Bayside, Queens Village and Oakland Gardens, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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