Riverside Boulevard, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Riverside Boulevard in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against major corridors. Access 52, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most major corridors, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Riverside Boulevard in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (94) and tree cover (58). Food nearby (45) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Riverside Boulevard, with 102 reports. Across every category, 227 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to residential noise (60 reports) and heat and hot water (47). The file runs across 74 distinct 311 categories in all. About 6 reports per 100 homes sit on Riverside Boulevard, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on Riverside Boulevard, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 15 residential buildings on Riverside Boulevard hold the 3,866 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 258 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 84 among major corridors and cleanliness ranks 65. That 65 on cleanliness puts Riverside Boulevard in the stronger half of major corridors. The card also puts quietness at 78 and housing at 77 among major corridors. Transit ranks 54 and food nearby 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Riverside Boulevard ranks 58 on tree cover, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 190 major corridors.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Riverside Boulevard is traffic safety, at 91.
About 15% of the 3,866 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 599 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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Riverside Boulevard runs through Upper West Side, 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).