Avenue B, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Avenue B in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue B in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Avenue B, with 150 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Avenue B holds 780 reports, and commercial noise is 19% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (92 reports) and graffiti (86). The file runs across 79 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue B carries roughly 66 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 80 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Avenue B, 41 violations of it. Structure follows at 37 violations, then pests at 31. PLUTO counts 90 residential buildings and 1,175 homes on Avenue B, with 56 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Since 2021, 24 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Avenue B ranks 78 on traffic safety and 32 on quietness. That 32 on quietness puts Avenue B in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 70 on the same scale, with housing at 51. Against every street in the city, Avenue B ranks 69 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Avenue B, at 97. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Avenue B is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue B is parking, at 98.
About 24% of the 1,175 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 278 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 B runs through East Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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