Neighborhood · Queens

Woodside

Woodside is in western Queens, east of Sunnyside, south of Astoria and west of Jackson Heights and Elmhurst. Its housing mixes small one- and two-family houses with apartment buildings, including garden apartments from the early 20th century. Transit is strong: the 7 train runs above Roosevelt Avenue with stations at 61st Street–Woodside (an express stop) and 69th Street, the M and R trains stop at Northern Boulevard and 65th Street on Broadway, and the LIRR Woodside station connects to the 61st Street subway stop. Windmuller Park, between 52nd and 54th Streets, includes Lawrence Virgilio Playground, with basketball and handball courts, a running track and a mini pool. NYCHA's Woodside Houses (1,357 apartments, completed 1949) is just north, in the neighboring Astoria (East)–Woodside (North) tabulation area.

Woodside has 10,483 open HPD housing violations, 1,936 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 2,661 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 20th most open violations of 60 neighborhoods in Queens.