51 Road, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 35 out of 100. How does 51 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 35 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 28, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 51 Road in the bottom 9% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and tree cover (48). Parking (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 51 Road, with 62 reports, and parking ranks 6 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 93 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 67% of them name illegal parking. The file runs across 22 distinct 311 categories in all. About 111 reports per 100 homes sit on 51 Road, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 51 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 49 residential buildings on 51 Road holding 84 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 83 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 21. 51 Road sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 38 and quietness at 27 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 23 and food nearby 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 51 Road, at 48. 51 Road is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is where 51 Road ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 95.
Of the 84 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.
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51 Road runs through Maspeth, Elmhurst and Sunnyside, 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).