Park Avenue, Manhattan NYC — Grand Central to Harlem | 2026
Park Avenue: from Grand Central's Viaduct to Upper East Side elegance. Safety, noise, and cleanliness scores for each block.
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against major corridors. Access 97, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Park Avenue in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (72) and tree cover (100). Housing (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Park Avenue, with 501 reports. Across every category, 2,722 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (382 reports) and residential noise (372). In all, 116 distinct 311 categories are represented on Park Avenue. The 311 file works out to about 23 reports for every 100 homes on Park Avenue.
Inspectors have written 136 Class C violations on Park Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 68 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 59 violations, then doors at 44. 235 residential buildings on Park Avenue hold the 11,718 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 136 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 50 homes each.
NYPD records 295 people injured in crashes on Park Avenue since 2021.
Among major corridors, Park Avenue ranks 68 on parking and 53 on cleanliness. Park Avenue sits in the stronger half of major corridors on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 58 and quietness at 57 among major corridors. Transit ranks 96 and food nearby 95, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Park Avenue, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Park Avenue is traffic safety, at 72.
The housing file puts 6% of the 11,718 homes on Park Avenue in rent stabilization, 692 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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Park 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).