Bell Boulevard, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Bell Boulevard in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 44, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, but little within a walk.
That puts Bell Boulevard in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (57) and tree cover (99). Transit (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Bell Boulevard, with 490 reports. Across every category, 1,282 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (252 reports) and residential noise (137). The file runs across 95 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,848 homes on file, that is about 45 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bell Boulevard carries 51 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bell Boulevard is doors, at 54 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (33 violations) and paint and lead (16). The housing file lists 544 residential buildings on Bell Boulevard holding 2,848 homes, with 99 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 5.2 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 180 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, housing comes in at 57, with infrastructure at 35. Bell Boulevard sits in the weaker half of major corridors on infrastructure. The card also puts traffic safety at 53 and parking at 43 among major corridors. Food nearby ranks 57 and transit 14, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Bell Boulevard, at 99. Bell Boulevard is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Bell Boulevard is cleanliness, at 57.
12% of the 2,848 homes recorded on Bell Boulevard are rent-stabilized, 344 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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Bell Boulevard runs through Bayside, Oakland Gardens and 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).