59 Drive, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does 59 Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 38, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts 59 Drive in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (83) and tree cover (61). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 59 Drive name illegal parking than any other category, 78 of them. Illegal parking accounts for 50% of the 155 reports on file here. Blocked driveway follows with 30 reports, and abandoned vehicle with 18. The file runs across 36 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, 59 Drive carries roughly 64 reports per 100 of them.
59 Drive carries 5 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 140 residential buildings and 243 homes on 59 Drive, with 15 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on 59 Drive since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 42 among quiet residential streets and parking ranks 18. That 18 on parking puts 59 Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, cleanliness sits at 31 and traffic safety at 21. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and transit at 30. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 59 Drive, at 61. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
None of the 243 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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.
Nearest streets in Queens
59 Drive runs through Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).