2 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does 2 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against major corridors. Access 95, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 2 Avenue in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and tree cover (99). Housing (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Rodent is the most-filed complaint on 2 Avenue, with 1,209 reports. Across every category, 6,942 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name rodent. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (1,191 reports) and encampment (1,163). Reports on 2 Avenue span 129 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, 2 Avenue carries roughly 28 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on 2 Avenue carries 718 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on 2 Avenue, 428 violations of it. Pests accounts for 410 more, and structure for 300. 641 residential buildings on 2 Avenue hold the 24,982 homes on file, 250 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 110 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 2 Avenue holds about 39 homes.
Reported crashes on 2 Avenue have injured 798 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 74 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 37. That 37 on cleanliness puts 2 Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 70 on the same scale, with quietness at 53. Food nearby ranks 96 and transit 92, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. 2 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Parking is where 2 Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 79.
The housing file puts 16% of the 24,982 homes on 2 Avenue in rent stabilization, 3,873 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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2 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).