261 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 261 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 82, 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 261 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and tree cover (91). Transit (15) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Dead and dying tree leads the 311 file on 261 Street, with 10 reports. The whole 311 file on 261 Street holds 33 reports, and dead and dying tree is 30% of it. Illegal fireworks is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. About 10 reports per 100 homes sit on 261 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 261 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 316 homes in 189 residential buildings on 261 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, 261 Street ranks 96 on housing and 69 on traffic safety. 261 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 95 and infrastructure at 70. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 261 Street ranks 91 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 261 Street is quietness, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 316 on 261 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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261 Street runs through 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).