Edgecombe Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Edgecombe Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against busy avenues. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Edgecombe Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and transit (94). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Edgecombe Avenue, with 629 reports. Across every category, 2,397 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 316 reports, and residential noise with 241. The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,051 homes on file, that is about 117 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 474 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Edgecombe Avenue, 266 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 222 more, and structure for 170. City housing records put 2,051 homes in 126 residential buildings on Edgecombe Avenue, 70 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
NYPD records 45 people injured in crashes on Edgecombe Avenue since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Edgecombe Avenue ranks 80 on infrastructure and 14 on quietness. That 14 on quietness puts Edgecombe Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 57 and cleanliness at 29. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 90 and food nearby at 69. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Edgecombe Avenue, at 94. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Edgecombe Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 81.
The housing file puts 62% of the 2,051 homes on Edgecombe Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,252 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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Edgecombe Avenue runs through Hamilton Heights, Washington Heights and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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