56 Drive, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 56 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 35, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 56 Drive in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (73) and tree cover (60). Parking (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 56 Drive, with 89 reports, and parking ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on 56 Drive holds 211 reports, and illegal parking is 42% of it. Abandoned vehicle follows with 40 reports, and blocked driveway with 27. Reports on 56 Drive span 31 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 233 homes on file, that is about 91 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 4 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 56 Drive is bed bugs, at 11 violations. Pests follows at 10 violations. 102 residential buildings on 56 Drive hold the 233 homes on file, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.3 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 64 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 37. A 37 on cleanliness places 56 Drive in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 59 and traffic safety at 52 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, 56 Drive ranks 53 on food nearby and 14 on transit. 56 Drive ranks 60 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Quietness is where 56 Drive ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 6% of the 233 homes on file, 13 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 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).