Avenue D, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Avenue D in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against busy avenues. Access 59, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Avenue D in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and food nearby (80). Quietness (36) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Avenue D, with 278 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,015 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (261 reports) and illegal parking (104). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Avenue D carries roughly 24 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Avenue D, 17 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (16 violations) and doors (13). 29 residential buildings on Avenue D hold the 4,163 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 144 homes to a building.
NYPD records 39 people injured in crashes on Avenue D since 2021.
Against busy avenues, housing comes in at 97, with traffic safety at 85. Avenue D sits in the strongest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 96 on the same scale, with parking at 91. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 62 and transit at 46. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Avenue D, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Avenue D is infrastructure, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 4,163 homes on file, 275 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 D runs through East Village, 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).