51 Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 51 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 20, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 51 Drive in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and transit (24). Tree cover (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 51 Drive, with 35 reports. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed, with 15 reports. In all, 10 distinct 311 categories are represented on 51 Drive.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 51 Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 44 residential buildings on 51 Drive holding 82 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 56, with cleanliness at 21. That 21 on cleanliness puts 51 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with housing at 40. Food nearby ranks 18 and tree cover 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 51 Drive ranks 24 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 51 Drive is traffic safety, at 86.
Of the 82 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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.
Nearest streets in Queens
- 51 Road, Queens
- 72 Place, Queens
- Jacobus Street, Queens
- Calamus Avenue, Queens
- 52 Court, Queens
- Elks Road, Queens
51 Drive runs through 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).