Cherry Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Cherry Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cherry Avenue in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (94) and tree cover (77). Infrastructure (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Cherry Avenue, with 133 reports. Across every category, 504 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 116 reports, and heat and hot water with 32. In all, 57 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cherry Avenue. About 66 reports per 100 homes sit on Cherry Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 143 Class C violations on Cherry Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Cherry Avenue, 71 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (47 violations) and heat and hot water (40). PLUTO counts 162 residential buildings and 766 homes on Cherry Avenue, with 28 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.7 homes each.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on Cherry Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 54 among busy avenues and parking ranks 28. A 28 on parking places Cherry Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 52 and housing at 29 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Cherry Avenue ranks 74 on food nearby and 37 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Cherry Avenue is scored inside.
Quietness is where Cherry Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
The housing file puts 23% of the 766 homes on Cherry Avenue in rent stabilization, 179 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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Cherry Avenue runs through Flushing and East Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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