53 Place, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does 53 Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 53 Place in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and transit (82). Traffic safety (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on 53 Place, with 25 reports. Across every category, 55 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name residential noise. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on 53 Place. About 104 reports per 100 homes sit on 53 Place, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 53 Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 48 residential buildings on 53 Place hold the 53 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 78, with parking at 11. An 11 on parking places 53 Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 75 on the same scale, with quietness at 38. Against every street in the city, 53 Place ranks 57 on food nearby and 32 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. 53 Place is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Of the 53 homes on file, none 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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53 Place runs through Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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