54 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does 54 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 58, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 54 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (89) and tree cover (75). Traffic safety (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on 54 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 44 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 31 among numbered streets. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on 54 Street, with 177 reports. Across every category, 542 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 89 reports, and blocked driveway with 64. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on 54 Street. Divided by the homes on file, 54 Street carries roughly 60 reports per 100 of them.
54 Street carries 50 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 54 Street is pests, at 42 violations. Paint and lead follows at 38 violations, then doors at 27. PLUTO counts 195 residential buildings and 901 homes on 54 Street, with 72 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 54 Street holds about 4.6 homes.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 61, with housing at 35. A 35 on housing places 54 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 41 and parking at 40 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 54 Street ranks 75 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 54 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 901 homes on file, 89 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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54 Street runs through Woodside, Maspeth and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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