52 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 52 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 52 Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and tree cover (89). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 52 Avenue, with 480 reports, and parking ranks 2 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,053 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (213 reports) and residential noise (73). Reports on 52 Avenue span 64 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,122 homes on file, that is about 94 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on 52 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 52 Avenue, 70 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 63 violations. The housing file lists 495 residential buildings on 52 Avenue holding 1,122 homes, with 170 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 80, with infrastructure at 9. A 9 on infrastructure places 52 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 70 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 23. Food nearby ranks 65 and transit 38, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is where 52 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 87.
None of the 1,122 homes on file 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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52 Avenue runs through Elmhurst, Maspeth and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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