Avenue C, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Avenue C in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against busy avenues. Access 69, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue C in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and food nearby (84). Quietness (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Avenue C name commercial noise than any other category, 223 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Commercial noise accounts for 26% of the 853 reports on file here. After that the file runs to illegal parking (180 reports) and residential noise (169). Reports on Avenue C span 90 distinct 311 categories. About 40 reports per 100 homes sit on Avenue C, counting every category.
HPD has cited 54 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 38 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (28 violations) and heat and hot water (22). The housing file lists 76 residential buildings on Avenue C holding 2,112 homes, with 46 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 28 homes each.
Since 2021, 40 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 82, with traffic safety at 63. Avenue C sits in the stronger half of busy avenues on traffic safety. Measured against busy avenues, cleanliness sits at 78 and housing at 71. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 77 and transit at 57. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Avenue C, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 2,112 homes on file, 634 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 C runs through East Village and Murray Hill, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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