Riverside Drive, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Riverside Drive in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Riverside Drive in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (73) and tree cover (100). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Riverside Drive, with 1,462 reports. Across every category, 6,231 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 1,026 reports, and residential noise with 594. The file runs across 109 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 12,383 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Riverside Drive carries 748 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. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 518 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (444 violations) and structure (286). PLUTO counts 208 residential buildings and 12,383 homes on Riverside Drive, with 32 walk-ups and 136 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Riverside Drive holds about 60 homes.
Since 2021, 231 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Riverside Drive ranks 51 on cleanliness and 37 on traffic safety. Riverside Drive sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 49 and quietness at 38. Against every street in the city, Riverside Drive ranks 79 on food nearby and 77 on transit. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Riverside Drive, at 100. Riverside Drive is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Riverside Drive is parking, at 62.
Rent stabilization covers about 25% of the 12,383 homes on file, 3,081 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- W 163 Street, Manhattan
- W 158 Street, Manhattan
- W 161 Street, Manhattan
- Riverside Drive W, Manhattan
- W 157 Street, Manhattan
- W 162 Street, Manhattan
Riverside Drive runs through Upper West Side, Washington Heights and Hamilton Heights, 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).