York Avenue, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 88 out of 100. How does York Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 88 out of 100.
Calm 91, ranked against busy avenues. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts York Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and food nearby (92). Transit (71) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on York Avenue name food establishment than any other category, 303 of them. Food establishment accounts for 37% of the 818 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 143 reports, and noise with 106. The file runs across 97 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 7,989 homes on file, that is about 10 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 59 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on York Avenue, 49 violations of it. Pests accounts for 31 more, and structure for 30. PLUTO counts 116 residential buildings and 7,989 homes on York Avenue, with 68 walk-ups and 38 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 69 homes each.
Since 2021, 78 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among busy avenues, York Avenue ranks 98 on parking and 81 on traffic safety. York Avenue sits in the strongest quarter of busy avenues on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 95 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 82. Against every street in the city, York Avenue ranks 91 on tree cover and 71 on transit. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 550 busy avenues make up the band York Avenue is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 7,989 homes on file, 1,851 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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York Avenue runs through Upper East Side, 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).