239 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does 239 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.

Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.

That puts 239 Street in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (94) and tree cover (76). Transit (3) 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 239 Street, with 25 reports. Across every category, 99 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to damaged tree (23 reports) and residential noise (21). In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on 239 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 239 Street carries roughly 56 reports per 100 of them.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on 239 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 178 homes in 127 residential buildings on 239 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on 239 Street since 2021.

Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 71, with infrastructure at 10. 239 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 35 and traffic safety at 29 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 239 Street ranks 18 on food nearby and 3 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 239 Street, at 76. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 239 Street is scored inside.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 239 Street is cleanliness, at 94.

None of the 178 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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239 Street runs through 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).

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