237 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 237 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 66, 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 237 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (85). Transit (2) 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 237 Street, with 34 reports. Across every category, 50 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 68% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (25 reports) and damaged tree (12). Reports on 237 Street span 32 distinct 311 categories. About 24 reports per 100 homes sit on 237 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 237 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 167 residential buildings and 209 homes on 237 Street, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 237 Street have injured 7 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 94 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 37. A 37 on infrastructure places 237 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 89 and traffic safety at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 12 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
Of the 209 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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237 Street runs through Bellerose, Laurelton and Cambria Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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