Maple Avenue, Queens: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Maple Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.

Calm 60, ranked against busy avenues. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.

That puts Maple Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (82) and food nearby (89). Housing (23) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Maple Avenue name blocked driveway than any other category, 95 of them. The whole 311 file on Maple Avenue holds 705 reports, and blocked driveway is 13% of it. Illegal parking follows with 62 reports, and heat and hot water with 33. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,019 homes on file, that is about 69 reports per 100 homes.

The HPD file on Maple Avenue carries 154 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Maple Avenue, 47 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 45 more, and pests for 38. The housing file lists 56 residential buildings on Maple Avenue holding 1,019 homes, with 30 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 18 homes to a building.

NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Maple Avenue since 2021.

Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 73, with parking at 51. That 51 on parking puts Maple Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Cleanliness ranks 69 on the same scale, with quietness at 55. The citywide frame puts transit at 57 and tree cover at 50. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Maple Avenue, at 89. Maple Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.

Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.

The housing file puts 35% of the 1,019 homes on Maple Avenue in rent stabilization, 351 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.

Nearest streets in Queens

Maple Avenue runs through Flushing, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Queens, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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