55 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 55 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 55 Road in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (99) and food nearby (48). Cleanliness (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 55 Road, with 33 reports, and cleanliness ranks 29 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 64 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 52% of them name illegal parking. Behind it sits blocked driveway, with 14 reports. In all, 23 distinct 311 categories are represented on 55 Road. Divided by the homes on file, 55 Road carries roughly 43 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on 55 Road. PLUTO counts 73 residential buildings and 149 homes on 55 Road, with 28 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 59, with infrastructure at 31. A 31 on infrastructure places 55 Road in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 44 and traffic safety at 37. Against every street in the city, 55 Road ranks 41 on tree cover and 33 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 55 Road, at 48. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band 55 Road is scored inside.
Housing is where 55 Road ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 99.
Of the 149 homes on file, none 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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55 Road runs through Elmhurst 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).