Cypress Avenue, Queens: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Cypress Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against busy avenues. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cypress Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and food nearby (83). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Cypress Avenue. 169 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among busy avenues. The 311 file on Cypress Avenue is led by illegal parking, with 329 reports. Across every category, 553 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 59% of them name illegal parking. Blocked driveway follows with 67 reports, and illegal dumping with 44. Reports on Cypress Avenue span 70 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 141 reports for every 100 homes on Cypress Avenue.
The HPD file on Cypress Avenue carries 3 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Cypress Avenue is bed bugs, at 14 violations. Pests accounts for 11 more. PLUTO counts 105 residential buildings and 393 homes on Cypress Avenue, with 32 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 3.7 homes each.
Among busy avenues, Cypress Avenue ranks 61 on quietness and 14 on parking. That 14 on parking puts Cypress Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 53 and infrastructure at 25 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Cypress Avenue ranks 73 on tree cover and 57 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file puts 25% of the 393 homes on Cypress Avenue in rent stabilization, 100 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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Cypress Avenue runs through Ridgewood and Glendale, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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