7 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does 7 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 29, 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 7 Avenue in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (49) and food nearby (100). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on 7 Avenue name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 1,857 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 41% of the 4,497 reports on file here. Heat and hot water follows with 1,113 reports, and commercial noise with 909. Reports on 7 Avenue span 123 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 5,126 homes on file, that is about 88 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 171 Class C violations here, 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 137 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 126 violations, then doors at 82. The housing file lists 72 residential buildings on 7 Avenue holding 5,126 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 29 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 71 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 7 Avenue have injured 399 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 46 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 16. That 16 on cleanliness puts 7 Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Traffic safety ranks 42 on the same scale, with housing at 36. Transit ranks 99 and tree cover 62, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. 7 Avenue ranks 100 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band 7 Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is where 7 Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 49.
Rent stabilization covers about 12% of the 5,126 homes on file, 616 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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7 Avenue runs through Midtown, Chelsea and Midtown South, 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).