Bessemund Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Bessemund Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 39, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Bessemund Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and transit (53). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bessemund Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 22 of them. Residential noise accounts for 22% of the 101 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed, with 13 reports. Reports on Bessemund Avenue span 31 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Bessemund Avenue carries roughly 75 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Bessemund Avenue carries 23 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bessemund Avenue is heat and hot water, at 18 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 13 more, and plumbing for 11. The housing file lists 39 residential buildings on Bessemund Avenue holding 135 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.5 homes each.
Among smaller avenues, Bessemund Avenue ranks 86 on cleanliness and 13 on quietness. A 13 on quietness places Bessemund Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, infrastructure sits at 64 and traffic safety at 54. Tree cover ranks 45 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 53. Bessemund Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
53% of the 135 homes recorded on Bessemund Avenue are rent-stabilized, 72 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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Bessemund Avenue runs through Far Rockaway, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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