Haven Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Haven Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Haven Avenue in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and transit (92). Quietness (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Haven Avenue, with 244 reports. The whole 311 file on Haven Avenue holds 781 reports, and illegal parking is 31% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 114 reports, and residential noise with 81. The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. About 81 reports per 100 homes sit on Haven Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 85 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 88 violations on file. Pests follows at 53 violations, then doors at 45. 15 residential buildings on Haven Avenue hold the 970 homes on file, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 65 homes each.
Reported crashes on Haven Avenue have injured 6 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 56 among busy avenues and housing ranks 32. That 32 on housing puts Haven Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 49 and cleanliness at 43. Against every street in the city, Haven Avenue ranks 76 on food nearby and 64 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. Haven Avenue is ranked against about 550 busy avenues citywide.
Traffic safety is where Haven Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 93.
About 31% of the 970 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 304 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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Haven Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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