Sherman Avenue, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Sherman Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against busy avenues. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sherman Avenue in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (91) and food nearby (93). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Sherman Avenue, with 553 reports. Across every category, 3,051 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 410 reports, then residential noise at 284. The file runs across 72 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,095 homes on file, that is about 146 reports per 100 homes.
Sherman Avenue carries 454 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Sherman Avenue, 271 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (262 violations) and doors (209). The housing file lists 44 residential buildings on Sherman Avenue holding 2,095 homes, with 34 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 48 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 99 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 64, with housing at 8. Sherman Avenue sits in the weakest quarter of busy avenues on housing. Infrastructure ranks 44 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 30. Transit ranks 81 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Sherman Avenue is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
About 88% of the 2,095 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,844 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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Sherman Avenue runs through Inwood and Washington 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).