Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, Manhattan: Grade B
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against major corridors. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and tree cover (98). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, with 266 reports. Across every category, 4,730 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 6% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water follows with 110 reports, and commercial noise with 92. Reports on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard span 70 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 82 reports for every 100 homes on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard.
Inspectors have written 1,410 Class C violations on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 25 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (21 violations) and pests (19). City housing records put 5,795 homes in 210 residential buildings on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard, 122 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 43 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 28 homes each.
Reported crashes on Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard have injured 54 people since 2021.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 77, with cleanliness at 31. That 31 on cleanliness puts Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. The card also puts parking at 76 and quietness at 35 among major corridors. Transit ranks 90 and food nearby 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 190 major corridors make up the band Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 87.
About 100% of the 5,795 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 11 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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Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard runs through Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).