271 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does 271 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.

Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 37, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.

That puts 271 Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (99) and food nearby (67). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Reports on 271 Street span 10 distinct 311 categories.

No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 271 Street. 42 residential buildings on 271 Street hold the 45 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 94, with infrastructure at 18. That 18 on infrastructure puts 271 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 60 on the same scale, with parking at 47. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 56 and transit at 12. 271 Street ranks 67 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 271 Street is scored inside.

Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.

Of the 45 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

271 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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