Woodside Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does Woodside Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Woodside Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and transit (86). Traffic safety (47) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Woodside Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 90 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 47 among busy avenues. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Woodside Avenue, with 172 reports. Across every category, 854 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (124 reports) and blocked driveway (110). In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on Woodside Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Woodside Avenue carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 129 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 59 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 41 more, and paint and lead for 41. 211 residential buildings on Woodside Avenue hold the 1,410 homes on file, 69 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Woodside Avenue holds about 6.7 homes.
Among busy avenues, Woodside Avenue ranks 86 on cleanliness and 58 on housing. Woodside Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 83 and quietness at 80. Against every street in the city, Woodside Avenue ranks 85 on food nearby and 85 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Woodside Avenue, at 86. Woodside Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
The housing file puts 33% of the 1,410 homes on Woodside Avenue in rent stabilization, 467 homes in all.
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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Woodside Avenue runs through Woodside, Elmhurst and Sunnyside, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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