Bennett Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Bennett Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against busy avenues. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bennett Avenue in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and transit (91). Quietness (50) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Bennett Avenue, with 164 reports. The whole 311 file on Bennett Avenue holds 625 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 147 reports, then residential noise at 140. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bennett Avenue. About 35 reports per 100 homes sit on Bennett Avenue, counting every category.
Bennett Avenue carries 55 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bennett Avenue is pests, at 30 violations. Paint and lead follows at 27 violations, then heat and hot water at 10. The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on Bennett Avenue holding 1,788 homes, with 1 walk-ups and 24 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 62 homes each.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 93, with cleanliness at 57. That 57 on cleanliness puts Bennett Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 67 and housing at 67. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bennett Avenue ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
About 57% of the 1,788 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,028 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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Bennett Avenue runs through Washington Heights, 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).