249 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 249 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 249 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and tree cover (96). 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 is the most-filed complaint on 249 Street, with 220 reports. Across every category, 382 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 58% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (51 reports) and abandoned vehicle (32). Reports on 249 Street span 55 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 249 Street carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
249 Street carries 12 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 249 Street is pests, at 18 violations. City housing records put 706 homes in 488 residential buildings on 249 Street, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 21 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 88, with infrastructure at 15. 249 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts housing at 57 and parking at 28 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 9, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 249 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 249 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 249 Street is cleanliness, at 99.
Of the 706 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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249 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).