10 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does 10 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against major corridors. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 10 Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (73) and food nearby (94). Quietness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on 10 Avenue, with 507 reports. Across every category, 2,684 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name vendor enforcement. Illegal parking follows with 484 reports, and encampment with 272. Reports on 10 Avenue span 115 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 6,164 homes on file, that is about 44 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 214 Class C violations on 10 Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 102 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (88 violations) and doors (55). The housing file lists 130 residential buildings on 10 Avenue holding 6,164 homes, with 77 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 47 homes each.
NYPD records 229 people injured in crashes on 10 Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 61 among major corridors and housing ranks 27. 10 Avenue sits in the weaker half of major corridors on housing. Measured against major corridors, parking sits at 54 and cleanliness at 38. Tree cover ranks 94 and transit 89, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 10 Avenue ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band 10 Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
The housing file puts 36% of the 6,164 homes on 10 Avenue in rent stabilization, 2,241 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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10 Avenue runs through Chelsea, Inwood and Hell's Kitchen, 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).