1 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does 1 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against major corridors. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 1 Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (82) and tree cover (100). Cleanliness (42) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 1 Avenue name encampment than any other category, 1,000 of them, and cleanliness ranks 42 among major corridors. Encampment accounts for 15% of the 6,728 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 837 reports, then for hire vehicle complaint at 706. Reports on 1 Avenue span 126 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 18 reports for every 100 homes on 1 Avenue.
HPD has cited 599 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 1 Avenue, 300 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (246 violations) and paint and lead (241). City housing records put 36,713 homes in 518 residential buildings on 1 Avenue, 258 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 87 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 1 Avenue holds about 71 homes.
Since 2021, 611 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 79 among major corridors and housing ranks 48. That 48 on housing puts 1 Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Infrastructure ranks 76 on the same scale, with quietness at 57. Against every street in the city, 1 Avenue ranks 89 on food nearby and 83 on transit. 1 Avenue ranks 100 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band 1 Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where 1 Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 82.
About 43% of the 36,713 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 15,200 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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1 Avenue runs through Upper East Side, East Harlem and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).