Cooper Avenue, Queens: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Cooper Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 49, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Cooper Avenue in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and tree cover (93). Parking (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Cooper Avenue, with 334 reports, and parking ranks 11 among busy avenues. Across every category, 803 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 42% of them name illegal parking. Abandoned vehicle follows with 166 reports, and blocked driveway with 136. Reports on Cooper Avenue span 71 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Cooper Avenue carries roughly 142 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Cooper Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cooper Avenue is pests, at 34 violations. Bed bugs follows at 23 violations, then doors at 10. City housing records put 567 homes in 290 residential buildings on Cooper Avenue, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Reported crashes on Cooper Avenue have injured 108 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 71 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 13. A 13 on traffic safety places Cooper Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 28 and infrastructure at 17. Food nearby ranks 45 and transit 34, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Cooper Avenue ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 567 homes on file, 13 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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Cooper Avenue runs through Glendale, Middle Village and Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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