Cornaga Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Cornaga Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 61, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cornaga Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (67) and tree cover (76). Infrastructure (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Cornaga Avenue, with 185 reports. The whole 311 file on Cornaga Avenue holds 500 reports, and illegal parking is 37% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (45 reports) and residential noise (38). Reports on Cornaga Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 109 reports for every 100 homes on Cornaga Avenue.
Cornaga Avenue carries 27 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cornaga Avenue is pests, at 36 violations. Doors accounts for 19 more, and paint and lead for 15. PLUTO counts 96 residential buildings and 458 homes on Cornaga Avenue, with 7 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 4.8 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Cornaga Avenue have injured 51 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 52 among busy avenues and traffic safety ranks 22. That 22 on traffic safety puts Cornaga Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 46 and parking at 31 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 57 and food nearby 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Cornaga Avenue, at 76. Cornaga Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
The housing file puts 57% of the 458 homes on Cornaga Avenue in rent stabilization, 183 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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