242 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 242 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 242 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and tree cover (89). Transit (6) 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 242 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 118 of them. Across every category, 318 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 42 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 29. The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 242 Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
242 Street carries 8 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 242 Street, 10 violations of it. 267 residential buildings on 242 Street hold the 533 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 15. 242 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Housing ranks 68 on the same scale, with parking at 19. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 6. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 242 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 242 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 74.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 533 on 242 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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242 Street runs through Bellerose, Rosedale and Douglaston, 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).