7 Avenue S, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does 7 Avenue S in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts 7 Avenue S in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and food nearby (100). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against 7 Avenue S. Reported crashes here have injured 47 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among smaller avenues. Complaints are rare by comparison. Outdoor dining is the most-filed, with 95 reports. Across every category, 290 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name outdoor dining. Obstruction follows with 88 reports, and residential noise with 72. Reports on 7 Avenue S span 55 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 130 homes on file, that is about 223 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on 7 Avenue S, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 12 residential buildings on 7 Avenue S holding 130 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 62 among smaller avenues and traffic safety ranks 9. 7 Avenue S sits in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues on traffic safety. The card also puts housing at 37 and cleanliness at 10 among smaller avenues. Transit ranks 99 and tree cover 35, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 7 Avenue S, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
36% of the 130 homes recorded on 7 Avenue S are rent-stabilized, 47 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 S runs through West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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