Waters Edge Drive, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Waters Edge Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 19, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Waters Edge Drive in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and tree cover (39). Transit (12) 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 Waters Edge Drive, with 28 reports. Across every category, 46 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 61% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle is the next most-filed at 16 reports, then noise at 15. The file runs across 21 distinct 311 categories in all. About 21 reports per 100 homes sit on Waters Edge Drive, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Waters Edge Drive. PLUTO counts 44 residential buildings and 214 homes on Waters Edge Drive, with 6 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.9 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Waters Edge Drive since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Waters Edge Drive ranks 97 on cleanliness and 51 on quietness. Waters Edge Drive sits in the stronger half of quiet residential streets on quietness. The card also puts housing at 93 and parking at 53 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Waters Edge Drive ranks 18 on food nearby and 12 on transit. Waters Edge Drive ranks 39 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 Waters Edge Drive is traffic safety, at 99.
Of the 214 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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Waters Edge Drive runs through Bay Terrace, 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).