253 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 253 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 253 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and tree cover (92). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 253 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 26 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 35 reports. Across every category, 131 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Damaged tree follows with 21 reports, and root and sewer and sidewalk condition with 17. Reports on 253 Street span 36 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 253 Street carries roughly 37 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 253 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 356 homes in 273 residential buildings on 253 Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 82, with traffic safety at 15. That 15 on traffic safety puts 253 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 57 and parking at 55 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 253 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 253 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
None of the 356 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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253 Street runs through Rosedale, Bellerose 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).