56 Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does 56 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 64, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 56 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (88) and tree cover (79). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 56 Street, with 209 reports, and parking ranks 3 among numbered streets. Across every category, 717 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 98 reports, and residential noise with 82. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on 56 Street. The 311 file works out to about 112 reports for every 100 homes on 56 Street.
56 Street carries 1 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on 56 Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests, at 15 violations. 245 residential buildings on 56 Street hold the 643 homes on file, 60 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.6 homes to a building.
NYPD records 20 people injured in crashes on 56 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 55 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 15. A 15 on infrastructure places 56 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 49 on the same scale, with quietness at 30. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and transit at 57. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 79. 56 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 13% of the 643 homes on file, 85 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 Street runs through Woodside, Maspeth and Astoria & Woodside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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