Hessler Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Hessler Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 43, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Hessler Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (64). Tree cover (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Hessler Avenue, with 11 reports. The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on Hessler Avenue holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 25 residential buildings on Hessler Avenue hold the 43 homes on file, 1 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.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 75, with quietness at 47. That 47 on quietness puts Hessler Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 61 and housing at 50 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 31 and tree cover 10, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 64. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Hessler Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Hessler Avenue is parking, at 84.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 43 on Hessler 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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Hessler Avenue runs through Rockaway Beach, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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