50 Street, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does 50 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 50 Street in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (56) and tree cover (77). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 50 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 282 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 36% of the 779 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 208 reports, and heat and hot water with 101. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on 50 Street. Set against the 782 homes on file, that is about 100 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 70 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on 50 Street, 52 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 49 violations, then pests at 46. City housing records put 782 homes in 253 residential buildings on 50 Street, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 3.1 homes each.
NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on 50 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 50 Street ranks 26 on housing and 7 on infrastructure. 50 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 25 on the same scale, with quietness at 23. Food nearby ranks 73 and transit 41, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. 50 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where 50 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 26.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 782 homes on file, 173 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 Street runs through Sunnyside and Astoria & Woodside, 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).