55 Drive, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 18 out of 100. How does 55 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 18 out of 100.
Calm 10, 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 55 Drive in the bottom 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (17) and food nearby (59). The lowest of the ten is traffic safety (3).
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 55 Drive, with 51 reports. Across every category, 107 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then residential noise at 19. The file runs across 23 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 75 homes on file, that is about 143 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 55 Drive carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. 29 residential buildings on 55 Drive hold the 75 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 55 Drive holds about 2.6 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among quiet residential streets, 55 Drive ranks 14 on quietness and 4 on infrastructure. 55 Drive sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 12 on the same scale, with parking at 11. Tree cover ranks 38 and transit 16, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 55 Drive, at 59. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 55 Drive is scored inside.
Housing is where 55 Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 17.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 75 on 55 Drive.
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 Drive 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).