Lenox Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Lenox Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against busy avenues. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lenox Avenue in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and tree cover (97). Street crime (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Lenox Avenue, with 836 reports. Across every category, 3,117 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 335 reports, then commercial noise at 280. In all, 106 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lenox Avenue. About 75 reports per 100 homes sit on Lenox Avenue, counting every category.
HPD has cited 443 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Lenox Avenue, 282 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 223 violations, then heat and hot water at 202. 166 residential buildings on Lenox Avenue hold the 4,147 homes on file, 87 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Lenox Avenue have injured 207 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Lenox Avenue ranks 69 on infrastructure and 18 on cleanliness. That 18 on cleanliness puts Lenox Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 38 and quietness at 26 among busy avenues. Transit ranks 94 and food nearby 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is where Lenox Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 34% of the 4,147 homes on file, 1,421 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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Lenox Avenue runs through Harlem, 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).