Woodward Avenue, Queens: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Woodward Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Woodward Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and tree cover (87). Cleanliness (46) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Woodward Avenue, with 156 reports, and cleanliness ranks 46 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Woodward Avenue holds 643 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 115 reports, then blocked driveway at 90. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Woodward Avenue carries roughly 77 reports per 100 of them.
Woodward Avenue carries 33 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Woodward Avenue is bed bugs, at 77 violations. Pests follows at 73 violations, then doors at 21. 205 residential buildings on Woodward Avenue hold the 830 homes on file, 121 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 4 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Woodward Avenue have injured 50 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 78, with traffic safety at 57. Woodward Avenue sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 68 and parking at 68. Food nearby ranks 86 and transit 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Woodward Avenue, at 87. Woodward Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is where Woodward Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 830 homes on file, 61 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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Woodward Avenue runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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