Morningside Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Morningside Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Morningside Avenue in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (62) and transit (89). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Morningside Avenue, with 122 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among busy avenues. The whole 311 file on Morningside Avenue holds 565 reports, and heat and hot water is 22% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (83 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (69). Reports on Morningside Avenue span 52 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Morningside Avenue carries roughly 84 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Morningside Avenue carries 77 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Morningside Avenue, 53 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 39 violations, then doors at 24. City housing records put 674 homes in 33 residential buildings on Morningside Avenue, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 20 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 42 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 42 among busy avenues and housing ranks 19. A 19 on housing places Morningside Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts quietness at 27 and traffic safety at 23 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Morningside Avenue ranks 80 on food nearby and 71 on tree cover. Morningside Avenue ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 62.
36% of the 674 homes recorded on Morningside Avenue are rent-stabilized, 242 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
- Morningside Drive, Manhattan
- W 118 Street, Manhattan
- W 113 Street, Manhattan
- W 114 Street, Manhattan
- W 121 Street, Manhattan
- W 111 Street, Manhattan
Morningside Avenue runs through Morningside Heights, Harlem and Manhattanville, 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).