250 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 250 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 250 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (81) and tree cover (92). Transit (14) 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 250 Street, with 53 reports. Across every category, 141 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 38 reports, then overgrown tree and branches at 21. The file runs across 35 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 250 Street carries roughly 35 reports per 100 of them.
250 Street carries 5 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 343 residential buildings on 250 Street holding 401 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 80, with infrastructure at 20. That 20 on infrastructure puts 250 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 79 and parking at 54. Against every street in the city, 250 Street ranks 39 on food nearby and 14 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. 250 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
Of the 401 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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250 Street runs through 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).