45 Drive, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does 45 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 77, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 45 Drive in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (97) and tree cover (77). Infrastructure (1) 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 45 Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 26 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 24% of the 107 reports on file here. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (16 reports) and water system (15). In all, 30 distinct 311 categories are represented on 45 Drive. The 311 file works out to about 39 reports for every 100 homes on 45 Drive.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 45 Drive. City housing records put 273 homes in 185 residential buildings on 45 Drive, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 89 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 45. That 45 on parking puts 45 Drive in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 89 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 85. Food nearby ranks 59 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 45 Drive, at 77. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
About 2% of the 273 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 6 homes in all.
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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45 Drive runs through Auburndale and Bayside, 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).