235 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does 235 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 235 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (86). Transit (9) 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 235 Street, with 18 reports. The whole 311 file on 235 Street holds 97 reports, and illegal parking is 19% of it. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (16 reports) and heat and hot water (12). In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on 235 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 235 Street carries roughly 40 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 244 homes in 215 residential buildings on 235 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on 235 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 235 Street ranks 88 on housing and 20 on infrastructure. That 20 on infrastructure puts 235 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 82 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 59. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 235 Street ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 235 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 235 Street is quietness, at 97.
None of the 244 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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235 Street runs through Cambria Heights, Laurelton and Bellerose, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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