254 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 254 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 254 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (92) and tree cover (93). Transit (13) 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 254 Street, with 56 reports. The whole 311 file on 254 Street holds 106 reports, and illegal parking is 53% of it. Residential noise follows with 39 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 36. The file runs across 46 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 424 homes on file, that is about 25 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 254 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 305 residential buildings on 254 Street holding 424 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 254 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 254 Street ranks 74 on parking and 38 on cleanliness. A 38 on cleanliness places 254 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 73 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 49. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 254 Street, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where 254 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 92.
Of the 424 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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254 Street runs through Douglaston, Rosedale 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).