Queensbridge
Queensbridge, Queens — 36 restaurants, 11 cafés, 14 grocers. New York City's largest public housing project by unit count, and a neighborhood the data describes accurately: maxed Nomad score, Social Glue at 53. The city around it, not the project itself, generates the density.
Score Breakdown
About this Neighborhood
Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in the United States, and it sits on the Long Island City waterfront with a direct view of Midtown Manhattan. The neighborhood's data profile — 36 restaurants, 11 cafés, 14 grocers — reflects the commercial street activity on Vernon Boulevard and Northern Boulevard that surrounds the houses rather than amenities within the complex itself. Social Glue at 53 is honest about a neighborhood where the public housing population and the incoming LIC development wave exist in separate social networks. Eleven cafés and a maxed Nomad score of 100 reflect LIC's coworking and tech-adjacent commercial layer. Fourteen grocers serve both populations in a market that's diverse because of the demographics, not despite them. The remote_friendly tag is real: this corner of Queens has the infrastructure for it. The livability score of 96 flags some friction — likely transit density and the noise of an active industrial corridor.
Highlights
Nearby neighborhoods
Want live data and AI analysis for Queensbridge?
Explore Queensbridge live →