45 Road, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 45 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 45 Road in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (76) and tree cover (87). Infrastructure (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 45 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 93 of them. Across every category, 319 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to maintenance or facility (61 reports) and heat and hot water (59). In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on 45 Road. About 43 reports per 100 homes sit on 45 Road, counting every category.
The HPD file on 45 Road carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 45 Road, 19 violations of it. Bed bugs follows at 17 violations. PLUTO counts 221 residential buildings and 746 homes on 45 Road, with 32 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 45 Road holds about 3.4 homes.
NYPD records 13 people injured in crashes on 45 Road since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, 45 Road ranks 74 on housing and 27 on parking. A 27 on parking places 45 Road in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 43 and cleanliness at 41. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and transit at 51. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band 45 Road is scored inside.
Quietness is where 45 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 76.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 746 on 45 Road.
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 Road runs through Auburndale, Bayside and Long Island City, 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).