Convent Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Convent Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Convent Avenue in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and transit (93). Housing (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Convent Avenue, with 240 reports. The whole 311 file on Convent Avenue holds 912 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 168 reports, then residential noise at 69. Reports on Convent Avenue span 67 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Convent Avenue carries roughly 57 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 182 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 105 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 96 violations, then structure at 53. The housing file lists 117 residential buildings on Convent Avenue holding 1,602 homes, with 56 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, Convent Avenue ranks 67 on infrastructure and 27 on cleanliness. A 27 on cleanliness places Convent Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, quietness sits at 66 and traffic safety at 60. Tree cover ranks 91 and food nearby 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Convent Avenue ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Convent Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
32% of the 1,602 homes recorded on Convent Avenue are rent-stabilized, 516 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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Convent Avenue runs through Manhattanville and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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