51 Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does 51 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 51 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and food nearby (76). Traffic safety (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 51 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on 51 Street have injured 43 people, and traffic safety ranks 28 among numbered streets. The 311 file on 51 Street is led by illegal parking, with 115 reports. Illegal parking accounts for 30% of the 379 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (64 reports) and blocked driveway (36). Reports on 51 Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 42 reports for every 100 homes on 51 Street.
The HPD file on 51 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 51 Street, 23 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 14 violations. 52 residential buildings on 51 Street hold the 899 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 51 Street holds about 17 homes.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 75, with parking at 37. A 37 on parking places 51 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 73 and quietness at 53. Transit ranks 72 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 51 Street, at 76. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where 51 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 85.
The housing file puts 31% of the 899 homes on 51 Street in rent stabilization, 283 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 Street runs through Sunnyside and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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