229 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does 229 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 229 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and tree cover (96). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 229 Street, with 237 reports. Across every category, 562 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (52 reports) and blocked driveway (38). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 900 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on 229 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 229 Street, 19 violations of it. 732 residential buildings on 229 Street hold the 900 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 60 among numbered streets and parking ranks 25. A 25 on parking places 229 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 57 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 51. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 229 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.
Quietness is where 229 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 75.
None of the 900 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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229 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).