Claremont Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Claremont Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 67, 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 Claremont Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and transit (92). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Claremont Avenue, with 418 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Claremont Avenue holds 496 reports, and illegal parking is 84% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (86 reports) and residential noise (36). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Claremont Avenue. Set against the 1,219 homes on file, that is about 41 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Claremont Avenue carries 21 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Claremont Avenue is paint and lead, at 28 violations. Plumbing follows at 18 violations, then structure at 16. 27 residential buildings on Claremont Avenue hold the 1,219 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Claremont Avenue holds about 45 homes.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 87 among busy avenues and parking ranks 34. A 34 on parking places Claremont Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 79 and infrastructure at 70 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Claremont Avenue ranks 84 on food nearby and 68 on tree cover. Claremont Avenue ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Claremont Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Claremont Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 94.
The housing file puts 12% of the 1,219 homes on Claremont Avenue in rent stabilization, 152 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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Claremont Avenue runs through Morningside 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).