Bayfield Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Bayfield Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Bayfield Avenue in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and tree cover (30). Street crime (11) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bayfield Avenue name water system than any other category, 14 of them. Across every category, 35 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 40% of them name water system. Heat and hot water follows with 10 reports. In all, 31 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bayfield Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Bayfield Avenue carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Bayfield Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bayfield Avenue, 13 violations of it. City housing records put 103 homes in 62 residential buildings on Bayfield Avenue, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among smaller avenues, Bayfield Avenue ranks 80 on cleanliness and 21 on housing. Bayfield Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on housing. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 71 and infrastructure at 47. Transit ranks 25 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bayfield Avenue ranks 30 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bayfield Avenue is traffic safety, at 90.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 103 on Bayfield 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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Bayfield Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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