59 Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does 59 Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 59 Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (65) and tree cover (93). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 59 Avenue, with 661 reports, and parking ranks 12 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on 59 Avenue holds 1,195 reports, and illegal parking is 55% of it. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (239 reports) and residential noise (184). The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,580 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 59 Avenue carries 29 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 59 Avenue, 45 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (35 violations) and doors (18). PLUTO counts 607 residential buildings and 1,580 homes on 59 Avenue, with 39 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 59 Avenue holds about 2.6 homes.
NYPD records 48 people injured in crashes on 59 Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 59 Avenue ranks 46 on traffic safety and 15 on cleanliness. That 15 on cleanliness puts 59 Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 33 and infrastructure at 22. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 67 and transit at 35. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
The housing file puts 2% of the 1,580 homes on 59 Avenue in rent stabilization, 32 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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59 Avenue runs through Queensboro Hill, Maspeth and Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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