Cornish Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Cornish Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cornish Avenue in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and food nearby (89). Housing (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cornish Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 22 of them. Blocked driveway accounts for 27% of the 81 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 20 reports, and residential noise with 15. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cornish Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, Cornish Avenue carries roughly 49 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on Cornish Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cornish Avenue is bed bugs, at 10 violations. City housing records put 166 homes in 44 residential buildings on Cornish Avenue, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Cornish Avenue holds about 3.8 homes.
Against smaller avenues, infrastructure comes in at 86, with traffic safety at 43. A 43 on traffic safety places Cornish Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, parking sits at 58 and quietness at 49. Against every street in the city, Cornish Avenue ranks 79 on transit and 46 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 89. About 1,360 smaller avenues make up the band Cornish Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Cornish Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 95.
About 31% of the 166 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 51 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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Cornish Avenue runs through Elmhurst, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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