Morningside Drive, Manhattan: Grade A · 311 & City Data
Grade A, 87 out of 100. How does Morningside Drive in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 87 out of 100.
Calm 91, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Morningside Drive in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and transit (85). Tree cover (66) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Morningside Drive, with 15 reports. Across every category, 69 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name illegal parking. Reports on Morningside Drive span 34 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Morningside Drive carries roughly 4 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on Morningside Drive, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 1,760 homes in 13 residential buildings on Morningside Drive, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 135 homes to a building.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Morningside Drive since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Morningside Drive ranks 97 on quietness and 79 on traffic safety. A 79 on traffic safety places Morningside Drive in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 97 on the same scale, with housing at 92. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 81 and tree cover at 66. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Morningside Drive is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Morningside Drive is cleanliness, at 99.
49% of the 1,760 homes recorded on Morningside Drive are rent-stabilized, 855 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 Avenue, Manhattan
- W 114 Street, Manhattan
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- W 113 Street, Manhattan
- W 109 Street, Manhattan
- W 111 Street, Manhattan
Morningside Drive runs through 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).