Malba Drive, Queens: Grade F · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade F, 27 out of 100. How does Malba Drive in Queens rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade F, livability 27 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 22, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and little within a walk.
That puts Malba Drive in the bottom 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and tree cover (73). Transit (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
General construction and plumbing leads the 311 file on Malba Drive, with 44 reports. In all, 22 distinct 311 categories are represented on Malba Drive.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Malba Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 54 homes in 54 residential buildings on Malba Drive, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 87 among quiet residential streets and traffic safety ranks 8. That 8 on traffic safety puts Malba Drive in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 29 and cleanliness at 15. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 18 and transit at 3. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Malba Drive, at 73. Malba Drive is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
Of the 54 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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Malba Drive runs through College Point, 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).