The 50 Best Streets to Live on in NYC (Backed by 5M+ Data Points)
Top-rated streets & avenues, scored on complaints per resident plus what is in walking range
About Best Streets & Avenues
The best-scoring streets in New York are not the emptiest ones. Our score counts 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records and NYPD felony complaint records against the people who live on a street, then adds what that street reaches on foot: trains and buses, food shops, street trees. Each measure is ranked against streets of the same kind, so a busy avenue with 800 flats is judged against other busy avenues rather than against a cul-de-sac. That change matters more than it sounds. Under our previous model, which divided complaints by street length, the hundred highest-scoring streets in the city had a median of sixteen homes on them. The hundred highest today have a median of more than 1,700. The top of this list now runs through Battery Park City and the East Side, with South End Avenue at 95, a point under the highest reading on the site.
Orchard Street
Queens Street
South End Avenue
East 72 Street
North End Avenue
Red Hook Lane
West End Avenue
Oceana Dr W
East 54 Street
West 67 Street
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Rankings are built from 5M+ NYC 311 complaints, HPD violation records, NYPD crash records and NYPD felony complaint records, counted against the people who live on each street and ranked against streets of the same kind, then blended with what the street reaches on foot: transit, food permits and street trees.