240 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 240 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 62, 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 240 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (96) and tree cover (86). 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 240 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 28 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 32% of the 88 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 12 reports, and damaged tree with 11. In all, 27 distinct 311 categories are represented on 240 Street. Set against the 200 homes on file, that is about 44 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 240 Street. PLUTO counts 142 residential buildings and 200 homes on 240 Street, with 4 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 94, with infrastructure at 9. That 9 on infrastructure puts 240 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 66 and parking at 45 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 240 Street ranks 27 on food nearby and 3 on transit. 240 Street ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 240 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where 240 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 200 on 240 Street.
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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240 Street runs through Bellerose, Douglaston and Rosedale, 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).