Murdock Avenue, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 26 out of 100. How does Murdock Avenue in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 26 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 29, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and little within a walk.
That puts Murdock Avenue in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (40) and tree cover (83). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Murdock Avenue. Reported crashes here have injured 91 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among smaller avenues. Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Murdock Avenue, with 40 reports. Across every category, 388 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to street condition (37 reports) and plumbing (30). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 514 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Murdock Avenue carries 13 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Murdock Avenue is pests, at 26 violations. Behind it the file holds structure, at 11 violations. The housing file lists 414 residential buildings on Murdock Avenue holding 514 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
Among smaller avenues, Murdock Avenue ranks 40 on parking and 7 on infrastructure. That 7 on infrastructure puts Murdock Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Measured against smaller avenues, quietness sits at 25 and housing at 24. Against every street in the city, Murdock Avenue ranks 27 on food nearby and 9 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Murdock Avenue, at 83. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 40.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 514 on Murdock 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.
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Murdock Avenue runs through St. Albans and Queens Village, 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).