228 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 228 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 228 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (83) and tree cover (97). Transit (4) 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 228 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 161 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 53% of the 305 reports on file here. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then residential noise at 32. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on 228 Street. About 36 reports per 100 homes sit on 228 Street, counting every category.
228 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. HPD's most-cited category on 228 Street is pests, at 21 violations. PLUTO counts 688 residential buildings and 858 homes on 228 Street, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 228 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 228 Street ranks 81 on quietness and 11 on infrastructure. An 11 on infrastructure places 228 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 58 and cleanliness at 40. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 4, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 228 Street, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 228 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where 228 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
None of the 858 homes on file 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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228 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).