265 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 265 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 265 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and tree cover (89). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Root and sewer and sidewalk condition is the most-filed complaint on 265 Street, with 10 reports. Across every category, 75 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 13% of them name root and sewer and sidewalk condition. In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on 265 Street. Set against the 213 homes on file, that is about 35 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 265 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 193 residential buildings on 265 Street holding 213 homes, with 6 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Reported crashes on 265 Street have injured 8 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 81, with traffic safety at 40. That 40 on traffic safety puts 265 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 72 and cleanliness at 65. Against every street in the city, 265 Street ranks 27 on food nearby and 9 on transit. 265 Street ranks 89 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 265 Street is housing, at 99.
Of the 213 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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265 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).