248 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 248 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 60, 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 248 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (99) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (11) 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 248 Street, with 28 reports. The whole 311 file on 248 Street holds 115 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Missed collection follows with 26 reports, and blocked driveway with 23. Reports on 248 Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 248 Street carries roughly 25 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 248 Street. City housing records put 451 homes in 380 residential buildings on 248 Street, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on 248 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 248 Street ranks 97 on cleanliness and 30 on traffic safety. That 30 on traffic safety puts 248 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 96 on the same scale, with parking at 66. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 53 and transit at 12. 248 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 248 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
None of the 451 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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248 Street runs through Douglaston, Bellerose and Rosedale, 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).