Vermilyea Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Vermilyea Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against busy avenues. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most busy avenues, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Vermilyea Avenue in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and transit (92). Quietness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Vermilyea Avenue name heat and hot water than any other category, 376 of them. The whole 311 file on Vermilyea Avenue holds 1,439 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 234 reports, and residential noise with 143. The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Vermilyea Avenue carries roughly 109 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 208 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Vermilyea Avenue, 187 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 156 more, and doors for 97. City housing records put 1,315 homes in 40 residential buildings on Vermilyea Avenue, 39 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 33 homes each.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 75 among busy avenues and housing ranks 15. That 15 on housing puts Vermilyea Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts parking at 55 and cleanliness at 53 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Vermilyea Avenue ranks 92 on food nearby and 70 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Vermilyea Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
About 80% of the 1,315 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,051 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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Vermilyea Avenue runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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