5 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does 5 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 52, 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 5 Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and tree cover (100). Quietness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on 5 Avenue, with 1,479 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. The whole 311 file on 5 Avenue holds 7,046 reports, and residential noise is 21% of it. Encampment follows with 1,056 reports, and illegal parking with 1,038. In all, 127 distinct 311 categories are represented on 5 Avenue. Divided by the homes on file, 5 Avenue carries roughly 42 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 344 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on 5 Avenue is pests, at 212 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (190 violations) and doors (163). 262 residential buildings on 5 Avenue hold the 16,775 homes on file, 59 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 121 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 64 homes each.
Since 2021, 332 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 58, with housing at 36. 5 Avenue sits in the weaker half of major corridors on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 52 and parking at 52 among major corridors. Against every street in the city, 5 Avenue ranks 96 on food nearby and 95 on transit. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 5 Avenue is traffic safety, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 16,775 homes on file, 3,042 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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5 Avenue runs through Harlem, Midtown and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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