270 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 270 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 86, ranked against numbered streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 270 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (100) and tree cover (68). Parking (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 270 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 32 of them, and parking ranks 6 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 270 Street holds 50 reports, and illegal parking is 64% of it. Blocked driveway follows with 31 reports. In all, 17 distinct 311 categories are represented on 270 Street. Set against the 81 homes on file, that is about 62 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 270 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 81 homes in 80 residential buildings on 270 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on 270 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 98 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 61. That 61 on infrastructure puts 270 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 96 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 92. Against every street in the city, 270 Street ranks 59 on food nearby and 8 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 68. 270 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
None of the 81 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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270 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).