Riverside Drive, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Riverside Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 27, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Riverside Drive in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and tree cover (58). Transit (6) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Riverside Drive, with 19 reports. Across every category, 40 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed, with 10 reports. The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 108 homes on file, that is about 37 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Riverside Drive. PLUTO counts 56 residential buildings and 108 homes on Riverside Drive, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 92, with parking at 32. A 32 on parking places Riverside Drive in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 86 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 44. Food nearby ranks 42 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Riverside Drive ranks 58 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Riverside Drive is housing, at 97.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 108 on Riverside Drive.
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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Riverside Drive runs through Whitestone, 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).