226 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 226 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 226 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (88) and tree cover (95). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 226 Street, with 103 reports. Across every category, 402 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (56 reports) and residential noise (43). In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on 226 Street. Set against the 827 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on 226 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 30 violations on file. 677 residential buildings on 226 Street hold the 827 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 226 Street ranks 74 on quietness and 9 on infrastructure. A 9 on infrastructure places 226 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 59 and traffic safety at 37 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 226 Street ranks 35 on food nearby and 3 on transit. 226 Street ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 226 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 226 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 88.
Of the 827 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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226 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).