Lexington Avenue, Manhattan NYC — East Side Artery | 2026
Lex Ave runs through Midtown, UES, and East Harlem. Major subway lines, varied blocks. See safety and noise data here.
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against major corridors. Access 96, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lexington Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (76) and transit (97). Cleanliness (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Lexington Avenue, with 491 reports, and cleanliness ranks 26 among major corridors. Across every category, 4,330 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (466 reports) and encampment (440). Reports on Lexington Avenue span 120 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 44 reports for every 100 homes on Lexington Avenue.
Lexington Avenue carries 363 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 253 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 194 more, and doors for 160. City housing records put 9,876 homes in 398 residential buildings on Lexington Avenue, 113 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 75 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 25 homes each.
Reported crashes on Lexington Avenue have injured 298 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 75 among major corridors and housing ranks 29. Lexington Avenue sits in the weaker half of major corridors on housing. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 68 and quietness at 37. Against every street in the city, Lexington Avenue ranks 97 on tree cover and 95 on food nearby. Lexington Avenue ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 190 major corridors make up the band Lexington Avenue is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Lexington Avenue ranks best against major corridors, at 76.
Rent stabilization covers about 17% of the 9,876 homes on file, 1,707 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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Lexington Avenue runs through Upper East Side, East Harlem and East Midtown, 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).