257 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 257 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 257 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) 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
More 311 reports on 257 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 48 of them. The whole 311 file on 257 Street holds 131 reports, and illegal parking is 37% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 18 reports, and damaged tree with 16. Reports on 257 Street span 38 distinct 311 categories. About 35 reports per 100 homes sit on 257 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on 257 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. 300 residential buildings on 257 Street hold the 378 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 91, with traffic safety at 25. A 25 on traffic safety places 257 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 66 and parking at 48 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 257 Street ranks 51 on food nearby and 13 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 257 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where 257 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 378 on 257 Street.
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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257 Street runs through Glen Oaks and Rosedale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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