Pinehurst Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Pinehurst Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against busy avenues. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Pinehurst Avenue in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (87). Parking (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Pinehurst Avenue, with 426 reports, and parking ranks 10 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,084 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (196 reports) and unsanitary condition (76). In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pinehurst Avenue. Set against the 1,416 homes on file, that is about 77 reports per 100 homes.
Pinehurst Avenue carries 78 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Pinehurst Avenue is paint and lead, at 116 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (83 violations) and pests (70). 26 residential buildings on Pinehurst Avenue hold the 1,416 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Pinehurst Avenue holds about 54 homes.
Among busy avenues, Pinehurst Avenue ranks 84 on quietness and 29 on cleanliness. That 29 on cleanliness puts Pinehurst Avenue in the weaker half of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 77 on the same scale, with housing at 38. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 84 and tree cover at 67. Pinehurst Avenue ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
The housing file puts 44% of the 1,416 homes on Pinehurst Avenue in rent stabilization, 620 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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Pinehurst Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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