53 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 53 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 45, 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 Road in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and food nearby (53). Parking (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 53 Road, with 137 reports, and parking ranks 14 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 148 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 93% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 57 reports, and blocked driveway with 46. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on 53 Road. Set against the 178 homes on file, that is about 83 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 53 Road. The housing file lists 94 residential buildings on 53 Road holding 178 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 69, with infrastructure at 21. That 21 on infrastructure puts 53 Road in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 32 on the same scale, with quietness at 25. Tree cover ranks 35 and transit 21, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. 53 Road is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 53 Road is cleanliness, at 96.
Of the 178 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 Road 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).