256 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does 256 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 256 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and tree cover (94). Infrastructure (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 256 Street, with 40 reports. Across every category, 188 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name illegal parking. Park noise is the next most-filed at 32 reports, then residential noise at 32. Reports on 256 Street span 48 distinct 311 categories. About 40 reports per 100 homes sit on 256 Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 256 Street. HPD's most-cited category on 256 Street is pests, at 13 violations. The housing file lists 365 residential buildings on 256 Street holding 475 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 256 Street ranks 79 on traffic safety and 43 on quietness. 256 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 72 and cleanliness at 56. Food nearby ranks 51 and transit 17, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 256 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 256 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
None of the 475 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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256 Street runs through Glen Oaks, Rosedale and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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