255 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 255 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 67, 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 255 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (90) and tree cover (94). Transit (15) 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 255 Street, with 51 reports. Across every category, 218 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Water system follows with 20 reports, and damaged tree with 17. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 701 homes on file, that is about 31 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 286 residential buildings on 255 Street holding 701 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 255 Street ranks 87 on housing and 25 on infrastructure. That 25 on infrastructure puts 255 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 73 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 60. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 255 Street ranks 94 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is where 255 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
None of the 701 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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255 Street runs through Glen Oaks, Douglaston 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).