59 Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does 59 Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against numbered streets. Access 40, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, but little within a walk.
That puts 59 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (80) and tree cover (83). Parking (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on 59 Street, with 353 reports, and parking ranks 12 among numbered streets. Across every category, 704 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (95 reports) and heat and hot water (93). In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on 59 Street. The 311 file works out to about 74 reports for every 100 homes on 59 Street.
HPD has cited 22 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 38 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 38 more, and doors for 18. PLUTO counts 261 residential buildings and 957 homes on 59 Street, with 103 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. The average building on 59 Street holds about 3.7 homes.
NYPD records 34 people injured in crashes on 59 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 59 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 36. That 36 on cleanliness puts 59 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 57 and traffic safety at 45 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 35 and transit 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on 59 Street, at 83. About 990 numbered streets make up the band 59 Street is scored inside.
Quietness is where 59 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.
About 38% of the 957 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 365 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 Street runs through Woodside and Maspeth, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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