White Sands Way, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does White Sands Way in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts White Sands Way in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (79) and transit (79). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 5 distinct 311 categories in all.
The HPD file on White Sands Way carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. City housing records put 42 homes in 21 residential buildings on White Sands Way, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on White Sands Way holds about 2 homes.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, White Sands Way ranks 68 on parking and 21 on housing. That 21 on housing puts White Sands Way in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Quietness ranks 67 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 54. Against every street in the city, White Sands Way ranks 45 on food nearby and 0 on tree cover. White Sands Way ranks 79 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band White Sands Way is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where White Sands Way ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 73.
None of the 42 homes on file 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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White Sands Way runs through Rockaway Beach, 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).