Cook Avenue, Queens: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 37 out of 100. How does Cook Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 37 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 15, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but little within a walk.
That puts Cook Avenue in the bottom 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (81) and transit (17). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Reports on Cook Avenue span 7 distinct 311 categories.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Cook Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 24 homes in 22 residential buildings on Cook Avenue, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Cook Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, parking comes in at 61, with infrastructure at 18. That 18 on infrastructure puts Cook Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 58 and cleanliness at 46 among smaller avenues. Tree cover ranks 15 and food nearby 12, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cook Avenue ranks 17 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Quietness is where Cook Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 81.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 24 on Cook Avenue.
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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Cook Avenue runs through Middle Village, 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).