NYC Streets With the Best Traffic-Crash Records (2026)

About Safest Streets & Avenues for Traffic

Read the word safest narrowly here, because we mean one thing by it. This ranking is built from NYPD traffic crash records: every injury and death logged on a street since 2021, with a death counted five times an injury, divided by the number of people who live along it and ranked against streets of the same kind. Nothing in it is a crime measure, and a street at the top of the list is a street where cars have hurt very few of the people on it. Crime is counted separately, as the Street crime figure: the number of felony assaults, robberies, murders and home break-ins the NYPD recorded midblock on a street since 2021. That figure is ranked against streets of the same kind and carries 15% of the friction half of the livability score, and no part of it reaches the traffic ranking on this page. Open any street from this list to read its figure beside its traffic record. Traffic safety carries the heaviest single weight in our overall score, because it is the one measure built from harm that already happened rather than from a report somebody filed. The pattern is consistent: the best readings sit on residential blocks off the arterials, and the Bronx contributes more of the city's 200 best traffic records than any other borough, with Staten Island and Brooklyn next. Queens has the weakest borough average of the five. Tudor City Place and Rector Place in Manhattan both post a perfect reading.