262 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does 262 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 262 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and tree cover (93). Infrastructure (14) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 224 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 3 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 224 homes in 216 residential buildings on 262 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 95 among numbered streets and parking ranks 38. That 38 on parking puts 262 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 95 and housing at 87. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 15. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 224 on 262 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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262 Street runs through Glen Oaks and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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