50 Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does 50 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against busy avenues. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 50 Avenue in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and tree cover (96). Parking (0) 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 50 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 8,810 of them, and parking ranks 0 among busy avenues. Across every category, 9,207 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 96% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 259 reports, and blocked driveway with 130. The file runs across 89 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,328 homes on file, that is about 277 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 50 Avenue carries 38 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 50 Avenue is bed bugs, at 73 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (66 violations) and doors (17). PLUTO counts 529 residential buildings and 3,328 homes on 50 Avenue, with 153 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 50 Avenue holds about 6.3 homes.
Reported crashes on 50 Avenue have injured 47 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 81, with infrastructure at 54. A 54 on infrastructure places 50 Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 76 and cleanliness at 61 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 30, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 50 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 50 Avenue is housing, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 3,328 homes on file, 817 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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50 Avenue 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).