243 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does 243 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against numbered streets. Access 32, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 243 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (86) and tree cover (91). Infrastructure (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 243 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 243 Street have injured 56 people, and traffic safety ranks 8 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 93 reports. Across every category, 271 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (35 reports) and street condition (22). Reports on 243 Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 243 Street carries roughly 74 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 243 Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 271 residential buildings on 243 Street hold the 368 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 75 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 8. An 8 on traffic safety places 243 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 39 and cleanliness at 37 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 243 Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 243 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 243 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 368 on 243 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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243 Street runs through Rosedale, Bellerose and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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