Post Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Post Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against busy avenues. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Post Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and food nearby (92). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on Post Avenue, with 350 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of busy avenues. Across every category, 1,371 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (320 reports) and residential noise (310). The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,182 homes on file, that is about 116 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Post Avenue carries 143 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Post Avenue, 272 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (230 violations) and doors (137). City housing records put 1,182 homes in 30 residential buildings on Post Avenue, 28 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Post Avenue holds about 39 homes.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on Post Avenue since 2021.
Against busy avenues, cleanliness comes in at 74, with housing at 23. A 23 on housing places Post Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts traffic safety at 73 and infrastructure at 59 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Post Avenue ranks 87 on transit and 64 on tree cover. Post Avenue ranks 92 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Post Avenue is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
The housing file puts 88% of the 1,182 homes on Post Avenue in rent stabilization, 1,036 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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Post Avenue runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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