247 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 247 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 247 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (82) and tree cover (95). Infrastructure (13) 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 247 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 54 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 27% of the 202 reports on file here. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then residential noise at 28. Reports on 247 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 247 Street carries roughly 37 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on 247 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 247 Street is pests, at 12 violations. PLUTO counts 479 residential buildings and 543 homes on 247 Street, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on 247 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 67 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 58. A 58 on traffic safety places 247 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 59 and quietness at 58 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 247 Street ranks 53 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 247 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 247 Street is housing, at 82.
None of the 543 homes on file 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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247 Street runs through Bellerose, Douglaston and Rosedale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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