Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Manhattan: Grade C+
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against major corridors. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Frederick Douglass Boulevard in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (85) and tree cover (93). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Frederick Douglass Boulevard name heat and hot water than any other category, 1,319 of them. The whole 311 file on Frederick Douglass Boulevard holds 4,053 reports, and heat and hot water is 33% of it. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (302 reports) and illegal parking (290). The file runs across 63 distinct 311 categories in all. About 104 reports per 100 homes sit on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 953 Class C violations on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 456 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 374 more, and doors for 263. 149 residential buildings on Frederick Douglass Boulevard hold the 3,889 homes on file, 104 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 21 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Frederick Douglass Boulevard holds about 26 homes.
Since 2021, 39 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Frederick Douglass Boulevard ranks 70 on infrastructure and 11 on quietness. An 11 on quietness places Frederick Douglass Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. The card also puts parking at 47 and cleanliness at 43 among major corridors. Transit ranks 92 and food nearby 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Frederick Douglass Boulevard ranks 93 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 3,889 on Frederick Douglass Boulevard.
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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Frederick Douglass 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).