Sylvan Ter, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Sylvan Ter in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Sylvan Ter in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (76) and transit (95). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
The 311 file works out to about 97 reports for every 100 homes on Sylvan Terrace.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Sylvan Terrace, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 20 residential buildings on Sylvan Terrace holding 37 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Sylvan Terrace since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Sylvan Terrace ranks 60 on traffic safety and 6 on quietness. Sylvan Terrace sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on quietness. The card also puts cleanliness at 49 and parking at 19 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Sylvan Terrace ranks 87 on food nearby and 0 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Sylvan Terrace, at 95. Sylvan Terrace is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Housing is where Sylvan Terrace ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 76.
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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Sylvan Ter runs through 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).