218 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 218 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 218 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (64) and tree cover (98). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 218 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 111 of them. The whole 311 file on 218 Street holds 586 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. Residential noise follows with 73 reports, and water system with 38. Reports on 218 Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 58 reports for every 100 homes on 218 Street.
The HPD file on 218 Street carries 23 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 218 Street, 34 violations of it. Doors follows at 12 violations, then bed bugs at 10. The housing file lists 694 residential buildings on 218 Street holding 1,008 homes, with 44 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 61 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 10. That 10 on cleanliness puts 218 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 56 and parking at 36. Against every street in the city, 218 Street ranks 48 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 218 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 64.
7% of the 1,008 homes recorded on 218 Street are rent-stabilized, 66 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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218 Street runs through Queens Village, Bayside and Laurelton, 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).