238 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 238 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 238 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (93) and tree cover (80). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on 238 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 46 of them. The whole 311 file on 238 Street holds 78 reports, and illegal parking is 59% of it. Residential noise follows with 16 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 147 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 238 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 115 residential buildings on 238 Street hold the 147 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on 238 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 238 Street ranks 85 on housing and 16 on parking. That 16 on parking puts 238 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 75 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 23. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 3, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 238 Street ranks 80 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 238 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 238 Street is cleanliness, at 93.
None of the 147 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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238 Street runs through Laurelton, Bellerose and Cambria Heights, 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).