S End Avenue, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 94 out of 100. How does S End Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 94 out of 100.
Calm 96, ranked against busy avenues. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts S End Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (100) and transit (95). Tree cover (72) is the weak spot.
On the record
Noise is the most-filed complaint on South End Avenue, with 40 reports. Across every category, 217 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name noise. Illegal parking follows with 37 reports, and residential noise with 11. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, South End Avenue carries roughly 10 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on South End Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 4 residential buildings on South End Avenue holding 2,165 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 541 homes each.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 97 among busy avenues and quietness ranks 90. That 90 on quietness puts South End Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Infrastructure ranks 97 on the same scale, with parking at 96. Against every street in the city, South End Avenue ranks 91 on food nearby and 72 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 550 busy avenues make up the band South End Avenue is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
Of the 2,165 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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S End Avenue runs through Financial District, 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).