Seaman Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Seaman Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 51, ranked against busy avenues. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Seaman Avenue in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and transit (80). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Seaman Avenue, with 1,471 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among busy avenues. Across every category, 2,699 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 55% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (287 reports) and plumbing (264). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,477 homes on file, that is about 109 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 483 Class C violations on Seaman Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 335 violations on file. Paint and lead accounts for 327 more, and doors for 179. PLUTO counts 44 residential buildings and 2,477 homes on Seaman Avenue, with 23 walk-ups and 20 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 56 homes each.
Reported crashes on Seaman Avenue have injured 22 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, Seaman Avenue ranks 65 on infrastructure and 10 on housing. A 10 on housing places Seaman Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. Measured against busy avenues, parking sits at 59 and quietness at 20. Food nearby ranks 80 and tree cover 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Seaman Avenue, at 80. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Seaman Avenue is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Seaman Avenue is traffic safety, at 87.
About 72% of the 2,477 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,789 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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Seaman Avenue runs through Inwood and Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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