4 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does 4 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 73, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 4 Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and food nearby (99). Tree cover (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
For hire vehicle complaint leads the 311 file on 4 Avenue, with 47 reports. Across every category, 281 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name for hire vehicle complaint. After that the file runs to encampment (43 reports) and noise (32). In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on 4 Avenue. Set against the 906 homes on file, that is about 31 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 4 Avenue carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. 14 residential buildings on 4 Avenue hold the 906 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 4 Avenue holds about 65 homes.
Reported crashes on 4 Avenue have injured 24 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, 4 Avenue ranks 87 on infrastructure and 48 on cleanliness. That 48 on cleanliness puts 4 Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 83 and traffic safety at 57 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 26, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 4 Avenue, at 99. 4 Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Housing is where 4 Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
About 14% of the 906 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 128 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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4 Avenue runs through Greenwich Village and East Village, 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).