Columbus Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Columbus Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against major corridors. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Columbus Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (80) and tree cover (99). Quietness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Columbus Avenue name residential noise than any other category, 496 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of major corridors. Across every category, 2,658 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to commercial noise (372 reports) and illegal parking (330). The file runs across 113 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 6,894 homes on file, that is about 39 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 189 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 pests, with 63 violations on file. Doors follows at 46 violations, then heat and hot water at 38. 123 residential buildings on Columbus Avenue hold the 6,894 homes on file, 73 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 29 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 56 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 135 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Columbus Avenue ranks 62 on parking and 32 on cleanliness. That 32 on cleanliness puts Columbus Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 56 and housing at 39. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 92 and transit at 90. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Columbus Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Traffic safety is where Columbus Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 80.
18% of the 6,894 homes recorded on Columbus Avenue are rent-stabilized, 1,269 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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Columbus Avenue runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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