216 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 216 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 59, 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 216 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (95) and tree cover (96). Transit (8) 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 216 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 51 of them. The whole 311 file on 216 Street holds 216 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (37 reports) and damaged tree (30). The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 216 Street carries roughly 26 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 216 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 216 Street is pests, at 23 violations. Paint and lead follows at 12 violations. City housing records put 844 homes in 554 residential buildings on 216 Street, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 216 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 92 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 18. An 18 on infrastructure places 216 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 68 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 43. Against every street in the city, 216 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 216 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 216 Street is quietness, at 95.
The housing file puts 1% of the 844 homes on 216 Street in rent stabilization, 7 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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216 Street runs through Bayside, Queens Village and Bay Terrace, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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