53 Street, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does 53 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 53 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and food nearby (75). Tree cover (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Blocked driveway is the most-filed complaint on 53 Street, with 44 reports. Across every category, 225 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name blocked driveway. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 33 reports, then heat and hot water at 30. The file runs across 41 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 53 Street carries roughly 36 reports per 100 of them.
53 Street carries 40 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 53 Street is pests, at 24 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (15 violations) and structure (13). City housing records put 630 homes in 79 residential buildings on 53 Street, 45 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 53 Street holds about 8 homes.
Reported crashes on 53 Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, 53 Street ranks 93 on traffic safety and 34 on housing. A 34 on housing places 53 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 82 and parking at 70 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, 53 Street ranks 52 on transit and 29 on tree cover. 53 Street ranks 75 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 53 Street is infrastructure, at 99.
The housing file puts 28% of the 630 homes on 53 Street in rent stabilization, 107 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 Street runs through Sunnyside and Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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