222 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 222 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 222 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (54) and tree cover (99). Infrastructure (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on 222 Street, with 119 reports. The whole 311 file on 222 Street holds 767 reports, and residential noise is 16% of it. Illegal parking follows with 91 reports, and blocked driveway with 78. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 222 Street. The 311 file works out to about 58 reports for every 100 homes on 222 Street.
Inspectors have written 48 Class C violations on 222 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 222 Street, 47 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 31 more, and doors for 26. The housing file lists 839 residential buildings on 222 Street holding 1,327 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 65 people injured in crashes on 222 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 46 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 27. A 27 on traffic safety places 222 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 41 on the same scale, with quietness at 37. Against every street in the city, 222 Street ranks 42 on food nearby and 13 on transit. 222 Street ranks 99 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 222 Street is parking, at 49.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 1,327 homes on file, 138 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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222 Street runs through Queens Village, Laurelton and Cambria Heights, 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).