51 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does 51 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against busy avenues. Access 57, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 51 Avenue in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and tree cover (94). Parking (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 51 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 435 of them, and parking ranks 23 among busy avenues. Across every category, 882 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (108 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (87). Reports on 51 Avenue span 79 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 51 Avenue carries roughly 54 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 38 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 51 Avenue is bed bugs, at 66 violations. Pests follows at 43 violations, then paint and lead at 22. The housing file lists 425 residential buildings on 51 Avenue holding 1,623 homes, with 163 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 3.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 42 people injured in crashes on 51 Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 81, with infrastructure at 35. A 35 on infrastructure places 51 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 58 and cleanliness at 37. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 65 and transit at 37. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Quietness is where 51 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 83.
About 2% of the 1,623 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 36 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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51 Avenue runs through Elmhurst, Woodside and Long Island City, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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