Watson Place, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does Watson Place in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 17, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Watson Place in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (98) and food nearby (27). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Water system is the most-filed complaint on Watson Place, with 54 reports. The whole 311 file on Watson Place holds 60 reports, and water system is 90% of it. Blocked driveway is the next most-filed at 30 reports, then sidewalk condition at 30. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Watson Place carries roughly 69 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Watson Place holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 87 homes in 62 residential buildings on Watson Place, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Watson Place since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 88, with cleanliness at 8. Watson Place sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 33 and infrastructure at 16 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 17 and tree cover 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Watson Place, at 27. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Watson Place is scored inside.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 87 on Watson Place.
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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