Madison Avenue, Manhattan NYC — Luxury Mile Living | 2026

Madison Avenue: NYC's luxury shopping corridor and Upper East Side residential gem. See safety, noise, and cleanliness scores for every block.

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.

Calm 51, 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 Madison Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (74) and tree cover (99); quietness (34) is the weak spot.

On the record

Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on Madison Avenue, with 964 reports. HPD has cited 237 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. On the other side, parking ranks 74 among major corridors. Only about 15% of the 9,215 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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