W End Drive, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W End Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 31, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts W End Drive in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (91) and food nearby (80). Transit (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 10 distinct 311 categories in all.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on West End Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 24 homes in 11 residential buildings on West End Drive, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 2.2 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 81 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 21. West End Drive sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts parking at 77 and traffic safety at 27 among quiet residential streets. Tree cover ranks 20 and transit 6, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West End Drive, at 80. West End Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Quietness is where West End Drive ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 24 on West End 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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W End Drive runs through Douglaston, 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).