268 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does 268 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against numbered streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 268 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and tree cover (89). Transit (3) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 268 Street, with 35 reports. Across every category, 98 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits damaged tree, with 12 reports. Reports on 268 Street span 27 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 33 reports for every 100 homes on 268 Street.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 299 homes in 147 residential buildings on 268 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 268 Street holds about 2 homes.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 93, with parking at 31. A 31 on parking places 268 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 82 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 49. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 39 and transit at 3. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 268 Street, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 268 Street is housing, at 98.
None of the 299 homes on file 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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268 Street runs through Glen Oaks, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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