Cheney Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Cheney Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 23, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Cheney Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (35). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cheney Street name illegal parking than any other category, 11 of them. The file runs across 7 distinct 311 categories in all.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Cheney Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 18 residential buildings on Cheney Street hold the 26 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Cheney Street have injured no one.
Among quiet residential streets, Cheney Street ranks 81 on quietness and 39 on cleanliness. Cheney Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. Parking ranks 64 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 50. Transit ranks 22 and tree cover 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Cheney Street, at 35. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Cheney Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cheney Street is infrastructure, at 88.
None of the 26 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Cheney Street runs through St. Albans, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).