West Drive, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 36 out of 100. How does West Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 36 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 21, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts West Drive in the bottom 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and tree cover (73). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on West Drive. City housing records put 49 homes in 18 residential buildings on West Drive, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 2.7 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 66 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 3. West Drive sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 61 and traffic safety at 13 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, West Drive ranks 18 on food nearby and 1 on transit. West Drive ranks 73 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band West Drive is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
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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West 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).