Pleasant Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 40 out of 100. How does Pleasant Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 40 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against smaller avenues. Access 56, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most smaller avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Pleasant Avenue in the bottom 18% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (77). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Pleasant Avenue, with 190 reports, and parking ranks 3 among smaller avenues. Across every category, 743 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 56 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 53. In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on Pleasant Avenue. About 167 reports per 100 homes sit on Pleasant Avenue, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 7 Class C violations on Pleasant Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Pleasant Avenue is pests, at 37 violations. Doors accounts for 33 more, and bed bugs for 20. The housing file lists 51 residential buildings on Pleasant Avenue holding 446 homes, with 38 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 8.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among smaller avenues, Pleasant Avenue ranks 51 on traffic safety and 9 on quietness. That 9 on quietness puts Pleasant Avenue in the weakest quarter of smaller avenues. Housing ranks 31 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 18. Tree cover ranks 64 and transit 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Pleasant Avenue, at 77. Pleasant Avenue is ranked against about 1,360 smaller avenues citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
53% of the 446 homes recorded on Pleasant Avenue are rent-stabilized, 235 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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Pleasant Avenue runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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