Bascom Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Bascom Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 26, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Bascom Avenue in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (85) and food nearby (53). Transit (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Bascom Avenue, with 13 reports. The whole 311 file on Bascom Avenue holds 37 reports, and illegal parking is 35% of it. Behind it sits residential noise, with 10 reports. The file runs across 26 distinct 311 categories in all. About 45 reports per 100 homes sit on Bascom Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bascom Avenue. The housing file lists 50 residential buildings on Bascom Avenue holding 82 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Bascom Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, cleanliness comes in at 73, with quietness at 16. That 16 on quietness puts Bascom Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Infrastructure ranks 66 on the same scale, with housing at 34. Against every street in the city, Bascom Avenue ranks 33 on tree cover and 6 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bascom Avenue, at 53. Bascom Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 82 on Bascom Avenue.
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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Bascom Avenue runs through Baisley Park, 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).