259 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 259 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 259 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and tree cover (90). Infrastructure (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 259 Street, with 30 reports. Across every category, 111 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 25 reports, then sewer at 15. In all, 37 distinct 311 categories are represented on 259 Street. Set against the 297 homes on file, that is about 37 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 259 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 297 homes in 236 residential buildings on 259 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 94, with traffic safety at 33. That 33 on traffic safety puts 259 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 68 and parking at 56. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 45 and transit at 14. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. 259 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Of the 297 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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259 Street runs through Glen Oaks 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).