Fairview Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Fairview Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Fairview Avenue in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (90). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Fairview Avenue, with 70 reports. The whole 311 file on Fairview Avenue holds 232 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. Residential noise follows with 64 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 13. Reports on Fairview Avenue span 32 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 350 homes on file, that is about 66 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on Fairview Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Fairview Avenue is paint and lead, at 21 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (18 violations) and heat and hot water (18). The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on Fairview Avenue holding 350 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 70 homes each.
Reported crashes on Fairview Avenue have injured 22 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 92 among smaller avenues and quietness ranks 11. An 11 on quietness places Fairview Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Parking ranks 77 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 14. Food nearby ranks 80 and tree cover 31, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Fairview Avenue, at 90. Fairview Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Cleanliness is where Fairview Avenue ranks best against smaller avenues, at 98.
31% of the 350 homes recorded on Fairview Avenue are rent-stabilized, 108 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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Fairview Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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