246 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 246 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 67, ranked against numbered streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 246 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (87). Transit (9) 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 246 Street, with 22 reports. Across every category, 83 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to water system (18 reports) and damaged tree (12). Reports on 246 Street span 26 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 246 Street carries roughly 33 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 246 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 221 residential buildings on 246 Street hold the 249 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on 246 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 95 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 25. A 25 on infrastructure places 246 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 86 and parking at 47. Against every street in the city, 246 Street ranks 31 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. 246 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 246 Street is housing, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 249 on 246 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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246 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).