Bayview Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Bayview Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.

Calm 75, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 12, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.

That puts Bayview Avenue in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (99) and tree cover (27). Infrastructure (2) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

In all, 19 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bayview Avenue. Set against the 45 homes on file, that is about 78 reports per 100 homes.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Bayview Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 42 residential buildings on Bayview Avenue holding 45 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.

Since 2021, reported crashes on Bayview Avenue have injured no one.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 85 among smaller avenues and housing ranks 63. A 63 on housing places Bayview Avenue in the stronger half of smaller avenues. The card also puts quietness at 83 and cleanliness at 74 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 18 and transit 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bayview Avenue, at 27. Bayview Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.

Parking is where Bayview Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 99.

None of the 45 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

Bayview Avenue runs through Rosedale, Douglaston and Howard Beach, 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).

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