56 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 56 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 27, 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 Road in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (84) and tree cover (83). Transit (4) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for 56 Road. 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among built-up residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 146 reports. Across every category, 278 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 53% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 93 reports, and blocked driveway with 37. The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. About 67 reports per 100 homes sit on 56 Road, counting every category.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on 56 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 56 Road, 19 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 17 more. City housing records put 415 homes in 207 residential buildings on 56 Road, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 56 Road holds about 2 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 80, with infrastructure at 9. That 9 on infrastructure puts 56 Road in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 64 and traffic safety at 15 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 27 and transit 4, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. 56 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is where 56 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 84.
Of the 415 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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56 Road runs through Sunnyside, Maspeth and Queensboro Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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