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 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 Madison Avenue in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (74) and tree cover (99). Quietness (30) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on Madison Avenue, with 964 reports. The whole 311 file on Madison Avenue holds 3,535 reports, and vendor enforcement is 27% of it. Residential noise follows with 635 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 419. Reports on Madison Avenue span 112 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Madison Avenue carries roughly 38 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 256 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Madison Avenue, 148 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 115 more, and doors for 109. PLUTO counts 263 residential buildings and 9,215 homes on Madison Avenue, with 94 walk-ups and 73 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Madison Avenue holds about 35 homes.
Since 2021, 281 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against major corridors, traffic safety comes in at 71, with housing at 34. A 34 on housing places Madison Avenue in the weaker half of major corridors. Measured against major corridors, infrastructure sits at 56 and cleanliness at 46. Against every street in the city, Madison Avenue ranks 95 on transit and 95 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Madison Avenue, at 99. Madison Avenue is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 9,215 homes on file, 1,407 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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Madison Avenue runs through East Harlem, Upper East Side and 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).