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• Most New York Residential Streets Have Almost Nothing on File (2026-09-07): Of the 5,856 residential streets carrying a Street crime figure, 1,280 have recorded no felony assault, robbery, murder or home break-in since 2021. The middle street sits at 1.8 per 100 homes.
• How NYC Street Noise Shifts With the Seasons (2026-03-05): The noise year peaks in September, not July, and the jump happens in a single month between April and May. The swing scales with a block's own baseline rather than adding a fixed amount of noise.
• Did Broadway Noise Complaints Drop 40 Percent? No. They Fell 34. (2026-03-01): Broadway noise complaints did fall, and the real number is 34 percent over three years, from a record high. The city went the other way over the same window.
• The 5th Avenue Bike Lane That May Never Have Been Built: What the Complaint Record Shows (2026-02-25): We ran the before-and-after on Fifth Avenue and its three parallel avenues. Park Avenue, which no plan ever touched, moved more than Fifth Avenue did.
• The 10 Quietest Streets in the Bronx (2026 Data) (2026-02-20): All ten, ranked on the quiet score. The leaders are in Co-op City and out on the eastern edge, with two Riverdale blocks among them, and Fieldston Road scores 29.

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.