3 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does 3 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against major corridors. Access 96, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 3 Avenue in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (73) and tree cover (100). Cleanliness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 3 Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 1,080 of them, and cleanliness ranks 39 among major corridors. The whole 311 file on 3 Avenue holds 4,690 reports, and residential noise is 23% of it. After that the file runs to homeless person assistance (492 reports) and illegal parking (418). The file runs across 124 distinct 311 categories in all. About 23 reports per 100 homes sit on 3 Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 182 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 3 Avenue, 134 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 123 more, and doors for 91. The housing file lists 408 residential buildings on 3 Avenue holding 20,726 homes, with 158 walk-ups and 97 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 51 homes to a building.
NYPD records 578 people injured in crashes on 3 Avenue since 2021.
Against major corridors, traffic safety comes in at 71, with housing at 56. A 56 on housing places 3 Avenue in the stronger half of major corridors. The card also puts parking at 70 and quietness at 60 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 3 Avenue ranks 96 on food nearby and 95 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. 3 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 73.
14% of the 20,726 homes recorded on 3 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 2,780 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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3 Avenue runs through Upper East Side, East Harlem and East Midtown, 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).