52 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does 52 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 76, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 52 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and transit (87). Infrastructure (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 52 Street, with 58 reports. Across every category, 426 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (36 reports) and noise (20). The file runs across 46 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 850 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 69 Class C violations on 52 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 52 Street, 59 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 43 more, and bed bugs for 34. The housing file lists 65 residential buildings on 52 Street holding 850 homes, with 43 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 90, with housing at 23. That 23 on housing puts 52 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 88 and parking at 83. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 83 and tree cover at 64. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on 52 Street, at 87. 52 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where 52 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
About 20% of the 850 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 167 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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52 Street runs through Sunnyside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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