BY EMILY DAVENPORT
A new report found that three Queens
neighborhoods are on the list of
the healthiest neighborhoods in
the city.
StreetEasy teamed up with
Seamless to find the top ten
healthiest neighborhoods throughout New York
City. To find this information, the study focused on
four key factors:
• The share of apartments in buildings with bike
rooms, gyms and smoke-free policies on Stree-tEasy
• The number of restaurants that fulfilled the high-est
amount of healthy food orders on Seamless
• The number of gyms, fitness studios, pools, doctor’s
offices, and health and wellness facilities on Yelp
• The number of bike lanes, public parks, community
gardens, recreation centers, sports fields, nature
areas and farmer’s markets, as found through
NYC Open Data
According to the report’s findings, Long Island City
came in as the second healthiest neighborhood in
New York City, and the most healthy in the borough
of Queens. The report found that Long Island City had
the highest number of healthy restaurants, ranking
above the NYC average for restaurants that fulfilled
orders including super foods, brain foods and health-focused
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special requests.
Right behind Long Island City in the number three
spot is Oakland Gardens, which StreetEasy noted
was one of the more affordable neighborhoods, with a
median rent of $1,813, that still offered many health-focused
amenities. The report found that Oakland
Gardens had 670,400 square feet of park space and
2,645 feet of bikes lanes per 1,000 people, more than
670 square feet of park space for every resident in
the neighborhood, which is the most compared to
the rest of Queens.
Rounding out the bottom of the list was Douglaston,
which took the number nine spot on the list. The report
found that Douglaston had the second highest amount
of park space compared to the rest of the list with
727,088 square feet per 1,000 people. Additionally,
the report found that restaurants in Douglaston were
50 percent more likely to fulfill healthy request orders.
To read the full report, visit StreetEasy.com.
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LIC RANKED second healthiest
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