Bay Lane, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Bay Lane in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 30, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Bay Lane in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (61) and food nearby (35). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 5 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Bay Lane holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 22 homes in 11 residential buildings on Bay Lane, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 49 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 7. Bay Lane sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. Traffic safety ranks 45 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 34. Transit ranks 27 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bay Lane, at 35. Bay Lane is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 22 on Bay Lane.
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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Bay Lane runs through Bay Terrace, 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).