Arden Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does Arden Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Arden Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and food nearby (88). Infrastructure (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Arden Street, with 196 reports. The whole 311 file on Arden Street holds 848 reports, and residential noise is 23% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 148 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 95. In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Arden Street. The 311 file works out to about 136 reports for every 100 homes on Arden Street.
HPD has cited 115 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Arden Street, 194 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (158 violations) and doors (69). 18 residential buildings on Arden Street hold the 624 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 35 homes each.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 57, with housing at 5. Arden Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 6 and cleanliness at 6. Against every street in the city, Arden Street ranks 84 on transit and 49 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Arden Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Arden Street is parking, at 73.
Rent stabilization covers about 81% of the 624 homes on file, 508 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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Arden Street runs through Washington Heights, 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).