57 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does 57 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 57 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (73) and food nearby (67). Parking (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 57 Street, with 117 reports, and parking ranks 13 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on 57 Street holds 373 reports, and illegal parking is 31% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (90 reports) and blocked driveway (82). In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on 57 Street. Set against the 478 homes on file, that is about 78 reports per 100 homes.
57 Street carries 2 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. HPD's most-cited category on 57 Street is bed bugs, at 19 violations. Behind it the file holds pests, at 16 violations. City housing records put 478 homes in 171 residential buildings on 57 Street, 56 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.8 homes to a building.
NYPD records 22 people injured in crashes on 57 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 60, with quietness at 29. 57 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 32 and traffic safety at 32. Tree cover ranks 67 and transit 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 67. 57 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 57 Street is housing, at 73.
7% of the 478 homes recorded on 57 Street are rent-stabilized, 33 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 Street runs through Woodside, Astoria & Woodside and Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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