Living in Maspeth: rent, commute and grades

Queens · Updated October 2026

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Rent in Maspeth

$1,400 a month

Type of homeA room in a 2-bedroom, shared by two

COverall

Grades compare NYC neighborhoods with each other. How the grades work.

C-Walkability
The average home has 3.6 of 5 everyday needs within a 10-minute walk (grocery store, restaurant, cafe, subway station, park) and about 87 places to eat or shop.
C-Food and shopping
Within a 10-minute walk of the average home: about 22 places to eat, 12 kinds of cuisine, 1 large grocery stores and 51 open storefronts.
FParks and green space
88% of residents live within a 10-minute walk of a park of an acre or more, with about 20 acres of parkland within 1 km and about 259 street trees within 300 m of the average home.

C-Community
16% of households moved in since 2018, 6% are roommates sharing a home, 15% of residents are 22 to 34, and there are about 10 cafes and bars within a 10-minute walk of the average home.
CNightlife
About 8 bars, clubs and restaurants licensed to serve alcohol on site within a 10-minute walk of the average home.

B+Safety
3.6 murders, robberies, felony assaults and burglaries were reported per 1,000 residents in 2025 (145 in all).
BQuiet
32 noise complaints to 311 per 1,000 residents in 2025, not counting helicopter complaints, and counting each address at most 12 days a year. That measures how often people complain, not how loud it is.
ABuilding upkeep
7.4 serious housing code violations (class B or C) were issued in 2025 per 100 rented homes, and there were 2.7 heat or hot water complaints per 100 rented homes.

By subway or bus, arriving by 9:00 on a weekday:Under 30 min30 to 45 min45 to 60 minOver an hourMaspeth

Maspeth is a major freight hub: a 2022 city transportation study ranks the Maspeth Industrial Business Zone among the top 5 of the city's 21 industrial business zones for goods moved. A truck bypass was built to steer trucks away from residential and shopping streets such as Grand Avenue. Source
Most homes in Maspeth are detached, semi-detached and attached one- and two-family houses, and a 2009 city rezoning lowered allowed densities to keep new buildings in line with them. Source
Maspeth was where European settlement of today's Queens began: in 1642 the English minister Francis Doughty brought several families to found a town called Maspeth under Dutch protection, but an attack leveled it in 1643. Source
Maspeth has had a Polish community since the late 1880s, and Holy Cross Parish, its second Polish church, opened in 1912. Source
Grand Avenue and Flushing Avenue are Maspeth's major shopping streets, lined with small two- and three-story apartment buildings over ground-floor stores. Source