Academy Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Academy Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Academy Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (66) and food nearby (91). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Academy Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 413 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Academy Street holds 1,506 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 27% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (276 reports) and heat and hot water (162). Reports on Academy Street span 60 distinct 311 categories. About 160 reports per 100 homes sit on Academy Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 118 Class C violations on Academy Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Academy Street is pests, at 109 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (83 violations) and doors (81). The housing file lists 26 residential buildings on Academy Street holding 942 homes, with 22 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 36 homes each.
NYPD records 21 people injured in crashes on Academy Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 37, with housing at 11. An 11 on housing places Academy Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 31 and infrastructure at 27. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Academy Street, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Academy Street is parking, at 66.
71% of the 942 homes recorded on Academy Street are rent-stabilized, 666 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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Academy Street runs through 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).