Avenue A, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Avenue A in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue A in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Avenue A name for hire vehicle complaint than any other category, 235 of them, and cleanliness ranks 2 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Avenue A holds 1,233 reports, and for hire vehicle complaint is 19% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (215 reports) and illegal parking (193). The file runs across 88 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,343 homes on file, that is about 92 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 94 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Avenue A is doors, at 34 violations. Pests follows at 34 violations, then bed bugs at 22. 82 residential buildings on Avenue A hold the 1,343 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Avenue A holds about 16 homes.
NYPD records 50 people injured in crashes on Avenue A since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 86 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 15. That 15 on quietness puts Avenue A in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Housing ranks 64 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 60. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Avenue A ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
16% of the 1,343 homes recorded on Avenue A are rent-stabilized, 215 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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Avenue A runs through East Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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