225 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 225 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 33, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 225 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and tree cover (97). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 225 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 225 Street have injured 133 people, and traffic safety ranks 4 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 225 Street, with 65 reports. The whole 311 file on 225 Street holds 329 reports, and illegal parking is 20% of it. Residential noise follows with 35 reports, and street condition with 31. Reports on 225 Street span 61 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on 225 Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 225 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. HPD's most-cited category on 225 Street is pests, at 11 violations. 731 residential buildings on 225 Street hold the 969 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 87, with infrastructure at 16. 225 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 67 on the same scale, with parking at 51. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 7. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. 225 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is where 225 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
The housing file puts 10% of the 969 homes on 225 Street in rent stabilization, 94 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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225 Street runs through Laurelton, Cambria Heights and Springfield Gardens & Brookville, 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).