221 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 221 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 50, 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 221 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (97). Infrastructure (2) 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 221 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 68 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 17% of the 390 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 58 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 54. Reports on 221 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 221 Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 21 Class C violations on 221 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 11 violations on file. Heat and hot water follows at 11 violations. 762 residential buildings on 221 Street hold the 931 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 53 people injured in crashes on 221 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 221 Street ranks 73 on quietness and 21 on traffic safety. 221 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 68 and parking at 63. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 221 Street, at 97. 221 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where 221 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
Of the 931 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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 Street runs through Queens Village, Cambria Heights 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).