221 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 221 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 221 Place in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (98) and tree cover (48). Transit (17) 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 221 Place, with 16 reports. In all, 18 distinct 311 categories are represented on 221 Place.
The HPD file on 221 Place holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 53 residential buildings and 125 homes on 221 Place, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 221 Place holds about 2.4 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 91 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 32. A 32 on traffic safety places 221 Place in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 90 and quietness at 34 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 17, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 221 Place ranks 48 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 221 Place is housing, at 98.
52% of the 125 homes recorded on 221 Place are rent-stabilized, 65 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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221 Place runs through Queens Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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