252 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 252 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 58, 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 252 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) 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 leads the 311 file on 252 Street, with 65 reports. Across every category, 125 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to water system (36 reports) and damaged tree (22). In all, 43 distinct 311 categories are represented on 252 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 252 Street carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 269 residential buildings and 299 homes on 252 Street, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 82 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 21. 252 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 74 and parking at 32 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 39 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 252 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 252 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 91.
Of the 299 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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252 Street runs through Bellerose, Douglaston and Glen Oaks, 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).