53 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 53 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 42, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 53 Avenue in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (92) and tree cover (95). Parking (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 53 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 516 of them, and parking ranks 4 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 56% of the 926 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 167 reports, and residential noise with 85. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 53 Avenue carries roughly 80 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 53 Avenue carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 53 Avenue, 64 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (50 violations) and doors (20). 565 residential buildings on 53 Avenue hold the 1,153 homes on file, 150 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
NYPD records 43 people injured in crashes on 53 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 53 Avenue ranks 80 on housing and 16 on infrastructure. That 16 on infrastructure puts 53 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 69 and traffic safety at 41 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 18, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 53 Avenue, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 53 Avenue is cleanliness, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 1% of the 1,153 homes on file, 8 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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53 Avenue runs through Bayside, Auburndale and Elmhurst, 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).