55 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does 55 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 55 Avenue in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (84) and tree cover (73). Parking (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 55 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 215 of them, and parking ranks 19 among busy avenues. Illegal parking accounts for 42% of the 511 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 127 reports, and derelict vehicles with 33. Reports on 55 Avenue span 61 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 61 reports for every 100 homes on 55 Avenue.
HPD has cited 11 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 55 Avenue, 19 violations of it. Pests accounts for 11 more. PLUTO counts 250 residential buildings and 833 homes on 55 Avenue, with 84 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 48 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, 55 Avenue ranks 72 on cleanliness and 26 on infrastructure. 55 Avenue sits in the weaker half of busy avenues on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 40 and traffic safety at 27 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, 55 Avenue ranks 67 on food nearby and 48 on transit. 55 Avenue ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 84.
3% of the 833 homes recorded on 55 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 22 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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55 Avenue runs through Elmhurst, Sunnyside and Corona, 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).