Fort Washington Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Fort Washington Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against busy avenues. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Fort Washington Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and transit (93). Cleanliness (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Divided by the homes on file, Fort Washington Avenue carries roughly 73 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 552 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 82 residential buildings and 4,685 homes on Fort Washington Avenue, with 10 walk-ups and 71 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 57 homes each.
Reported crashes on Fort Washington Avenue have injured 93 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 66, with housing at 24. Fort Washington Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Measured against busy avenues, traffic safety sits at 62 and quietness at 27. The citywide frame puts tree cover at 93 and food nearby at 87. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Fort Washington Avenue, at 93. Fort Washington Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Parking is where Fort Washington Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 82.
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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Fort Washington Avenue runs through Washington 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).