266 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does 266 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against numbered streets. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 266 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (90). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Sewer is the most-filed complaint on 266 Street, with 11 reports. Across every category, 77 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name sewer. Damaged tree is the next most-filed at 11 reports, then illegal parking at 11. In all, 29 distinct 311 categories are represented on 266 Street. The 311 file works out to about 33 reports for every 100 homes on 266 Street.
The HPD file on 266 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 236 homes in 219 residential buildings on 266 Street, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Among numbered streets, 266 Street ranks 87 on quietness and 13 on infrastructure. A 13 on infrastructure places 266 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 74 and cleanliness at 15 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 3, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 266 Street is housing, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 236 on 266 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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266 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).