56 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 56 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 46, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 56 Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (75) and tree cover (97). Transit (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 56 Avenue name illegal parking than any other category, 374 of them. Across every category, 819 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 78 reports, and residential noise with 63. Reports on 56 Avenue span 77 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 52 reports for every 100 homes on 56 Avenue.
HPD has cited 34 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 47 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 39 violations, then doors at 18. City housing records put 1,587 homes in 429 residential buildings on 56 Avenue, 106 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 56 Avenue holds about 3.7 homes.
Since 2021, 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, quietness comes in at 74, with parking at 24. 56 Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on parking. Housing ranks 68 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 44. Food nearby ranks 53 and transit 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 56 Avenue ranks 97 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Cleanliness is where 56 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 75.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 1,587 homes on file, 435 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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56 Avenue runs through Bayside, Auburndale and Elmhurst, 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).