234 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 234 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 64, 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 234 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (91). Transit (9) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 234 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 234 Street have injured 46 people, and traffic safety ranks 15 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 27 reports. The whole 311 file on 234 Street holds 119 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 21 reports, and dead and dying tree with 14. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. About 18 reports per 100 homes sit on 234 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on 234 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 653 homes in 371 residential buildings on 234 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 97, with traffic safety at 15. A 15 on traffic safety places 234 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 87 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 27. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 234 Street ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 234 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 234 Street is quietness, at 98.
Of the 653 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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234 Street runs through Laurelton, Cambria Heights and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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