Hillside Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Hillside Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Hillside Avenue in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (85). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Hillside Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 929 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 56% of the 1,668 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (897 reports) and non-emergency police matter (264). Reports on Hillside Avenue span 56 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 977 homes on file, that is about 171 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 142 Class C violations on Hillside Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Hillside Avenue, 112 violations of it. Pests follows at 76 violations, then plumbing at 60. PLUTO counts 10 residential buildings and 977 homes on Hillside Avenue, with 2 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Hillside Avenue holds about 98 homes.
Against major corridors, cleanliness comes in at 63, with housing at 3. A 3 on housing places Hillside Avenue in the weakest quarter of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 41 and parking at 30. Against every street in the city, Hillside Avenue ranks 82 on transit and 42 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 190 major corridors make up the band Hillside Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Hillside Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 95.
57% of the 977 homes recorded on Hillside Avenue are rent-stabilized, 556 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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Hillside Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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