54 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 54 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts 54 Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and tree cover (92). Parking (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 54 Avenue, with 543 reports, and parking ranks 1 among busy avenues. Across every category, 985 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to abandoned vehicle (357 reports) and blocked driveway (182). The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 751 homes on file, that is about 131 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 54 Avenue, 34 violations of it. Pests follows at 25 violations. The housing file lists 413 residential buildings on 54 Avenue holding 751 homes, with 92 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 54 Avenue ranks 75 on housing and 4 on infrastructure. A 4 on infrastructure places 54 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 39 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 38. Against every street in the city, 54 Avenue ranks 51 on food nearby and 31 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 54 Avenue, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band 54 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 54 Avenue is traffic safety, at 76.
None of the 751 homes on file 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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54 Avenue runs through Elmhurst, Sunnyside and 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).