53 Drive, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does 53 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 53 Drive in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (60) and food nearby (59). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 53 Drive, with 176 reports. Across every category, 258 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 68% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (64 reports) and blocked driveway (32). The file runs across 27 distinct 311 categories in all. About 131 reports per 100 homes sit on 53 Drive, counting every category.
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. City housing records put 197 homes in 86 residential buildings on 53 Drive, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.3 homes each.
Reported crashes on 53 Drive have injured 6 people since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 31, with parking at 6. A 6 on parking places 53 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, traffic safety sits at 24 and cleanliness at 19. Tree cover ranks 40 and transit 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 53 Drive ranks 59 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 60.
22% of the 197 homes recorded on 53 Drive are rent-stabilized, 44 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 Drive runs through Maspeth, 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).