Wadsworth Avenue, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Wadsworth Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 55, 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 Wadsworth Avenue in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and transit (91). Quietness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Wadsworth Avenue, with 698 reports. The whole 311 file on Wadsworth Avenue holds 2,219 reports, and heat and hot water is 31% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 241 reports, and residential noise with 178. The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,590 homes on file, that is about 86 reports per 100 homes.
Wadsworth Avenue carries 387 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 282 violations on file. Pests accounts for 274 more, and doors for 141. The housing file lists 68 residential buildings on Wadsworth Avenue holding 2,590 homes, with 45 walk-ups and 18 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 38 homes each.
NYPD records 51 people injured in crashes on Wadsworth Avenue since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 80 among busy avenues and housing ranks 19. A 19 on housing places Wadsworth Avenue in the weakest quarter of busy avenues. The card also puts cleanliness at 74 and traffic safety at 62 among busy avenues. Food nearby ranks 90 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is where Wadsworth Avenue ranks best against busy avenues, at 80.
The housing file puts 79% of the 2,590 homes on Wadsworth Avenue in rent stabilization, 2,045 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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Wadsworth Avenue runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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