Marcus Garvey Boulevard, Brooklyn: Grade C+ · Street Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against major corridors. Access 70, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Marcus Garvey Boulevard in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and food nearby (78). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Marcus Garvey Boulevard, with 189 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among major corridors. Across every category, 740 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise follows with 170 reports, and illegal parking with 99. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,593 homes on file, that is about 29 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 68 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Marcus Garvey Boulevard is pests, at 66 violations. Bed bugs follows at 38 violations, then paint and lead at 36. City housing records put 2,593 homes in 99 residential buildings on Marcus Garvey Boulevard, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Marcus Garvey Boulevard holds about 26 homes.
NYPD records 230 people injured in crashes on Marcus Garvey Boulevard since 2021.
Among major corridors, Marcus Garvey Boulevard ranks 75 on infrastructure and 37 on housing. That 37 on housing puts Marcus Garvey Boulevard in the weaker half of major corridors. Quietness ranks 48 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 39. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 75 and transit at 63. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 78. About 190 major corridors make up the band Marcus Garvey Boulevard is scored inside.
Parking is where Marcus Garvey Boulevard ranks best against major corridors, at 77.
About 33% of the 2,593 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 491 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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