Manhattan Avenue, Brooklyn: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against busy avenues. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Manhattan Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (91). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Manhattan Avenue, with 298 reports, and cleanliness ranks 9 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,820 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 195 reports, and commercial noise with 190. In all, 101 distinct 311 categories are represented on Manhattan Avenue. Set against the 2,821 homes on file, that is about 65 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Manhattan Avenue carries 129 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Manhattan Avenue, 134 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 125 more, and paint and lead for 58. PLUTO counts 477 residential buildings and 2,821 homes on Manhattan Avenue, with 125 walk-ups and 15 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Manhattan Avenue holds about 5.9 homes.
Reported crashes on Manhattan Avenue have injured 128 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 89, with traffic safety at 74. That 74 on traffic safety puts Manhattan Avenue in the stronger half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 81 and quietness at 79 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 89 and transit 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Manhattan Avenue, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Manhattan Avenue is parking, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 26% of the 2,821 homes on file, 716 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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Manhattan Avenue runs through Greenpoint, East Williamsburg and Coney Island, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Brooklyn, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Queens vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).