221 Street, Queens NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 221 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 221 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (97); infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 221 Street, with 68 reports. HPD has cited 25 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Since 2021, 53 people have been injured in reported crashes. On the other side, cleanliness ranks 99 among numbered streets. None of the 931 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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