55 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 55 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 55 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (72) and tree cover (79). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 55 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 170 of them, and parking ranks 13 among numbered streets. Across every category, 502 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (146 reports) and residential noise (45). Reports on 55 Street span 58 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 78 reports for every 100 homes on 55 Street.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 55 Street is pests, at 56 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (45 violations) and paint and lead (18). The housing file lists 254 residential buildings on 55 Street holding 640 homes, with 108 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 2.5 homes each.
Reported crashes on 55 Street have injured 19 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 57, with infrastructure at 41. A 41 on infrastructure places 55 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 50 and cleanliness at 50. Against every street in the city, 55 Street ranks 68 on food nearby and 48 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 55 Street, at 79. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 72.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 640 homes on file, 46 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 Street runs through Woodside, Maspeth and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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