Audubon Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Audubon Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Audubon Avenue in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and tree cover (90). Quietness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Audubon Avenue, with 763 reports. Across every category, 2,966 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 568 reports, then residential noise at 219. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Audubon Avenue carries roughly 108 reports per 100 of them.
Audubon Avenue carries 566 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Audubon Avenue is paint and lead, at 433 violations. Pests accounts for 377 more, and structure for 224. City housing records put 2,738 homes in 93 residential buildings on Audubon Avenue, 56 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Audubon Avenue holds about 29 homes.
NYPD records 80 people injured in crashes on Audubon Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 73 among busy avenues and housing ranks 15. That 15 on housing puts Audubon Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts infrastructure at 70 and traffic safety at 44 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 89 and transit 83, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Audubon Avenue, at 90. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Audubon Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Audubon Avenue is parking, at 84.
80% of the 2,738 homes recorded on Audubon Avenue are rent-stabilized, 2,180 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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Audubon Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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