Cherry Street, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Cherry Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.

Calm 54, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 13, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but little within a walk.

That puts Cherry Street in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on quietness (80) and food nearby (27). Transit (1) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.

On the record

Reports on Cherry Street span 9 distinct 311 categories.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Cherry Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 25 homes in 23 residential buildings on Cherry Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.

No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.

Among quiet residential streets, Cherry Street ranks 54 on parking and 38 on cleanliness. That 38 on cleanliness puts Cherry Street in the weaker half of quiet residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 49 on the same scale, with housing at 39. Against every street in the city, Cherry Street ranks 22 on tree cover and 1 on transit. Cherry Street ranks 27 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.

Quietness is where Cherry Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 80.

None of the 25 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Cherry Street runs through Douglaston, 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).

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