Manhattan Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Manhattan Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against busy avenues. Access 87, 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 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and transit (92). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Manhattan Avenue, with 339 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,373 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise follows with 174 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 119. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on Manhattan Avenue. Set against the 2,362 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Manhattan Avenue carries 276 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Manhattan Avenue, 213 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 137 more, and doors for 87. PLUTO counts 151 residential buildings and 2,362 homes on Manhattan Avenue, with 68 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Manhattan Avenue holds about 16 homes.
Reported crashes on Manhattan Avenue have injured 35 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, infrastructure comes in at 76, with housing at 29. That 29 on housing puts Manhattan Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 66 and quietness at 48 among busy avenues. Tree cover ranks 85 and food nearby 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Manhattan Avenue, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Manhattan Avenue is parking, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 46% of the 2,362 homes on file, 1,052 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- W 104 Street, Manhattan
- W 102 Street, Manhattan
- Columbus Avenue, Manhattan
- W 106 Street, Manhattan
- W 107 Street, Manhattan
- W 100 Street, Manhattan
Manhattan Avenue runs through Harlem, Upper West Side and Morningside Heights, 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).