52 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does 52 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 52 Road in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (33). Parking (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 52 Road name illegal parking than any other category, 57 of them, and parking ranks 5 among quiet residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 46% of the 123 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 44 reports. In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on 52 Road. Set against the 119 homes on file, that is about 103 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 82 residential buildings on 52 Road hold the 119 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 80 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 23. 52 Road sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 80 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 38. Against every street in the city, 52 Road ranks 27 on food nearby and 15 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 52 Road, at 33. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
None of the 119 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 Road runs through Maspeth, Woodside and Douglaston, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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