57 Road, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does 57 Road in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 50, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 57 Road in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (72) and tree cover (86). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 57 Road, with 167 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 343 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 49% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (112 reports) and residential noise (34). Reports on 57 Road span 50 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 719 homes on file, that is about 48 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on 57 Road, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 57 Road is bed bugs, at 35 violations. Pests accounts for 33 more. PLUTO counts 325 residential buildings and 719 homes on 57 Road, with 63 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 57 Road holds about 2.2 homes.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, 57 Road ranks 59 on housing and 17 on traffic safety. 57 Road sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 46 and parking at 19 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. 57 Road is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Quietness is where 57 Road ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 72.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 719 on 57 Road.
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 Road runs through Maspeth, Queensboro Hill and Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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