Benham Street, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Benham Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 67, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Benham Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (90) and food nearby (90). Street crime (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Benham Street, with 15 reports. Across every category, 66 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. Blocked driveway follows with 11 reports. Reports on Benham Street span 18 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 104 homes on file, that is about 63 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Benham Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 49 residential buildings on Benham Street hold the 104 homes on file, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.1 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, Benham Street ranks 81 on infrastructure and 11 on quietness. That 11 on quietness puts Benham Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 53 and traffic safety at 21 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 64 and tree cover 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Benham Street, at 90. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Benham Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Of the 104 homes on file, none 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.
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Benham Street runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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