9 Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does 9 Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against major corridors. Access 95, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts 9 Avenue in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (78) and food nearby (97). Quietness (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement leads the 311 file on 9 Avenue, with 1,804 reports. The whole 311 file on 9 Avenue holds 2,601 reports, and vendor enforcement is 69% of it. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 421 reports, then illegal parking at 342. The file runs across 111 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 5,681 homes on file, that is about 46 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on 9 Avenue carries 173 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on 9 Avenue, 119 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 96 more, and doors for 71. 260 residential buildings on 9 Avenue hold the 5,681 homes on file, 139 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on 9 Avenue have injured 170 people since 2021.
Against major corridors, infrastructure comes in at 65, with housing at 38. 9 Avenue sits in the weaker half of major corridors on housing. Parking ranks 65 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 45. The citywide frame puts transit at 94 and tree cover at 93. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on 9 Avenue, at 97. 9 Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
24% of the 5,681 homes recorded on 9 Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,213 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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9 Avenue runs through Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen and Inwood, 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).