217 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 217 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 217 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (83) and tree cover (99). 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 leads the 311 file on 217 Street, with 86 reports. The whole 311 file on 217 Street holds 457 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. After that the file runs to water system (65 reports) and blocked driveway (60). Reports on 217 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,299 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 217 Street carries 8 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 217 Street, 22 violations of it. 883 residential buildings on 217 Street hold the 1,299 homes on file, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 217 Street have injured 48 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 78, with traffic safety at 39. That 39 on traffic safety puts 217 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 75 on the same scale, with parking at 65. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 15, 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 217 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 217 Street is housing, at 83.
1% of the 1,299 homes recorded on 217 Street are rent-stabilized, 13 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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217 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).