Malcolm X Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Malcolm X Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Malcolm X Boulevard in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (79) and tree cover (77). Cleanliness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Malcolm X Boulevard, with 622 reports, and cleanliness ranks 15 among major corridors. Across every category, 828 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 75% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (151 reports) and commercial noise (141). The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Malcolm X Boulevard carries roughly 74 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Malcolm X Boulevard carries 128 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Malcolm X Boulevard, 85 violations of it. Heat and hot water follows at 70 violations, then bed bugs at 56. 194 residential buildings on Malcolm X Boulevard hold the 1,113 homes on file, 82 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 5.7 homes each.
Reported crashes on Malcolm X Boulevard have injured 48 people since 2021.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 78, with housing at 21. A 21 on housing places Malcolm X Boulevard in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, parking sits at 78 and quietness at 28. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 74 and transit at 72. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 77. 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 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 1,113 homes on file, 244 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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