224 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 224 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 34, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 224 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (75) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 224 Street, with 133 reports. Across every category, 451 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 66 reports, and residential noise with 64. Reports on 224 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on 224 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 224 Street is pests, at 27 violations. PLUTO counts 718 residential buildings and 879 homes on 224 Street, with 7 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 40 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 53, with traffic safety at 33. A 33 on traffic safety places 224 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 48 and cleanliness at 39. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 8, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 224 Street ranks 96 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 224 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 879 on 224 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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224 Street runs through Laurelton, Cambria Heights 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).