Greenwich Avenue, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 84 out of 100. How does Greenwich Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 84 out of 100.
Calm 83, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Greenwich Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and transit (98). Tree cover (43) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Greenwich Avenue name encampment than any other category, 99 of them. Across every category, 185 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 54% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to obstruction (75 reports) and residential disposal complaint (66). In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on Greenwich Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 31 reports for every 100 homes on Greenwich Avenue.
HPD has cited 6 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 43 residential buildings on Greenwich Avenue holding 596 homes, with 18 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Reported crashes on Greenwich Avenue have injured 21 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Greenwich Avenue ranks 97 on housing and 70 on traffic safety. That 70 on traffic safety puts Greenwich Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 89 and infrastructure at 79 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. Greenwich Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Greenwich Avenue is parking, at 99.
18% of the 596 homes recorded on Greenwich Avenue are rent-stabilized, 105 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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Greenwich Avenue runs through West Village, 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).