Chittenden Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Chittenden Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 55, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most smaller avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Chittenden Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and transit (70). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Chittenden Avenue, with 14 reports. The whole 311 file on Chittenden Avenue holds 41 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. In all, 7 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chittenden Avenue. About 58 reports per 100 homes sit on Chittenden Avenue, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Chittenden Avenue. PLUTO counts 7 residential buildings and 71 homes on Chittenden Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Chittenden Avenue holds about 10 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Chittenden Avenue have injured no one.
Against smaller avenues, traffic safety comes in at 88, with parking at 49. That 49 on parking puts Chittenden Avenue in the weaker half of smaller avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 77 and infrastructure at 71 among smaller avenues. Food nearby ranks 55 and tree cover 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Chittenden Avenue ranks 70 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,360 smaller avenues.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
10% of the 71 homes recorded on Chittenden Avenue are rent-stabilized, 7 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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Chittenden 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).