244 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 244 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 244 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and tree cover (86). Transit (7) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 244 Street, with 32 reports. Across every category, 82 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 29 reports, and street condition with 15. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on 244 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 244 Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 244 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 219 residential buildings and 242 homes on 244 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 15 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 94 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 14. 244 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 77 and traffic safety at 19 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 244 Street ranks 86 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
Of the 242 homes on file, none 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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244 Street runs through Douglaston, Rosedale and 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).