Willoughby Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Willoughby Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Willoughby Avenue in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and food nearby (80). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Willoughby Avenue, with 71 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 86 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 83% of them name illegal parking. Dirty condition is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then illegal dumping at 13. In all, 35 distinct 311 categories are represented on Willoughby Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 77 reports for every 100 homes on Willoughby Avenue.
The HPD file on Willoughby Avenue carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 84 residential buildings and 112 homes on Willoughby Avenue, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 31 among smaller avenues and parking ranks 14. Willoughby Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on parking. The card also puts quietness at 26 and housing at 25 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Willoughby Avenue, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Willoughby Avenue is infrastructure, at 63.
Of the 112 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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Willoughby Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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