Maurice Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Maurice Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 33, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Maurice Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (51) and tree cover (61). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Maurice Avenue. Since 2021, reported crashes on Maurice Avenue have injured 99 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Abandoned vehicle is the most-filed, with 131 reports. The whole 311 file on Maurice Avenue holds 203 reports, and abandoned vehicle is 65% of it. Illegal parking follows with 63 reports, and blocked driveway with 39. In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on Maurice Avenue. Set against the 124 homes on file, that is about 164 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Maurice Avenue. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 10 violations on file. PLUTO counts 50 residential buildings and 124 homes on Maurice Avenue, with 20 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 2.5 homes to a building.
Among smaller avenues, Maurice Avenue ranks 44 on quietness and 5 on parking. A 5 on parking places Maurice Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Cleanliness ranks 37 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 24. Food nearby ranks 48 and transit 13, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Maurice Avenue ranks 61 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is where Maurice Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 51.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 124 on Maurice Avenue.
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
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Maurice Avenue runs through Maspeth and Woodside, 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).