Cornelia Street, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Cornelia Street in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cornelia Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (63) and food nearby (92). Parking (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Cornelia Street, with 216 reports, and parking ranks 31 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 348 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 62% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 30 reports, and rodent with 26. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cornelia Street. Divided by the homes on file, Cornelia Street carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Cornelia Street carries 32 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cornelia Street is pests, at 51 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (39 violations) and bed bugs (27). City housing records put 575 homes in 139 residential buildings on Cornelia Street, 99 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 4.1 homes each.
Reported crashes on Cornelia Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Cornelia Street ranks 48 on quietness and 35 on infrastructure. A 35 on infrastructure places Cornelia Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 47 and housing at 37. The citywide frame puts transit at 91 and tree cover at 72. Cornelia Street ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Cornelia Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 63.
5% of the 575 homes recorded on Cornelia Street are rent-stabilized, 29 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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Cornelia Street runs through Ridgewood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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