236 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 236 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 236 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (87) and tree cover (79). Infrastructure (4) 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 236 Street, with 24 reports. The whole 311 file on 236 Street holds 76 reports, and illegal parking is 32% of it. Water system follows with 23 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 11. Reports on 236 Street span 35 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 176 homes on file, that is about 43 reports per 100 homes.
236 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 168 residential buildings and 176 homes on 236 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 84 among numbered streets and parking ranks 38. A 38 on parking places 236 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 55 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 49. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 12 and transit at 6. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 236 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 236 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 87.
None of the 176 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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236 Street runs through Laurelton, Cambria Heights and Bellerose, 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).