223 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 223 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 223 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (95) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (8) 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 223 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 81 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 26% of the 315 reports on file here. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (57 reports) and water system (35). The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,073 homes on file, that is about 29 reports per 100 homes.
223 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 19 violations on file. 788 residential buildings on 223 Street hold the 1,073 homes on file, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 77 people injured in crashes on 223 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 223 Street ranks 93 on housing and 14 on traffic safety. A 14 on traffic safety places 223 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 79 and parking at 64. Against every street in the city, 223 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 223 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 223 Street is quietness, at 95.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,073 on 223 Street.
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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223 Street runs through Cambria Heights, Laurelton and Queens Village, 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).