8 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does 8 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against major corridors. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 8 Avenue in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (75) and food nearby (99). Quietness (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
Air quality leads the 311 file on 8 Avenue, with 1,402 reports. Across every category, 3,825 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name air quality. Homeless person assistance is the next most-filed at 636 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 598. In all, 124 distinct 311 categories are represented on 8 Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 30 reports for every 100 homes on 8 Avenue.
The HPD file on 8 Avenue carries 121 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on 8 Avenue, 102 violations of it. Pests follows at 96 violations, then doors at 67. 203 residential buildings on 8 Avenue hold the 12,906 homes on file, 64 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 45 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on 8 Avenue holds about 64 homes.
Since 2021, 422 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, traffic safety comes in at 68, with cleanliness at 52. A 52 on cleanliness places 8 Avenue in the stronger half of major corridors. The card also puts parking at 66 and housing at 59 among major corridors. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 70, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 8 Avenue, at 99. About 190 major corridors make up the band 8 Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on 8 Avenue is infrastructure, at 75.
31% of the 12,906 homes recorded on 8 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 3,937 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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8 Avenue runs through Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and West 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).