57 Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does 57 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against busy avenues. Access 48, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts 57 Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and tree cover (95). Transit (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 57 Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 429 of them. The whole 311 file on 57 Avenue holds 1,796 reports, and heat and hot water is 24% of it. Residential noise follows with 378 reports, and illegal parking with 306. The file runs across 91 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 3,780 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
57 Avenue carries 254 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 57 Avenue is pests, at 160 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 107 more, and doors for 74. The housing file lists 341 residential buildings on 57 Avenue holding 3,780 homes, with 78 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Reported crashes on 57 Avenue have injured 70 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 78 among busy avenues and housing ranks 40. A 40 on housing places 57 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 56 and quietness at 44. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 29, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 57 Avenue ranks 95 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where 57 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 81.
About 72% of the 3,780 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 2,694 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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57 Avenue runs through Elmhurst, Douglaston and Corona, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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