269 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does 269 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.

Calm 86, ranked against numbered streets. Access 36, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 269 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (72). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

More 311 reports on 269 Street name blocked driveway than any other category, 12 of them. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all.

The HPD file on 269 Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 102 residential buildings and 103 homes on 269 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Among numbered streets, 269 Street ranks 96 on quietness and 45 on infrastructure. 269 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 92 on the same scale, with parking at 64. Food nearby ranks 62 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 269 Street, at 72. 269 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on 269 Street is traffic safety, at 99.

The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 103 on 269 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

269 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).

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