Where the numbers come from
Everything on BestageStreet comes from seventeen public datasets: sixteen published by eleven New York City and state agencies, and one open database built from city tax bills. Traffic safety means people hurt in crashes, from NYPD collision records. Street crime is its own measure, from NYPD complaint records, and it is the only crime number here. Nothing here knows your rent, your landlord's reviews or your school zone.
Scores recomputed Sun 11 Oct·311, HPD and DOB ingested Sun 11 Oct·Next run Sun 18 Oct·Five inputs are older than that, marked below.
- 311 31.3%
- Crashes 15.5%
- Crime 9.8%
- HPD 8.5%
- Transit 17.5%
- Food 10.5%
- Trees 7.0%
| Source | What we take from it | Share of grade | Records | Covers | Refreshed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 311 service requestsNYC 311·erm2-nwe9 | Noise, sanitation, street condition and illegal parking complaints, counted against the homes and businesses on the street. The 311 safety category is left out, because a nuisance call is not a measure of danger. | 31.3% | Records6.5M | CoversDec 2024 → Oct 2026 | RefreshedWeekly |
| Subway entrances and bus stopsMTA·i9wp-a4jaandai5j-txmn | Subway entrances and bus stops within a short walk, sampled every 400 meters along the street so a long avenue is not judged by one spot on it. We count entrances rather than stations, because an entrance is what you walk to. | 17.5% | Records15.6K2,072 subway entrances, 13,507 bus stops | Covers— | RefreshedMonthly, last Sun 23 Aug |
| Motor vehicle collisionsNYPD·h9gi-nx95 | People hurt in reported crashes on the street, counted as injuries plus five times fatalities from 2021 onward. Traffic safety is the largest single piece of a grade, and it counts traffic rather than crime. | 15.5% | Records1.8M637,517 injured, 3,297 killed, all years | CoversJul 2012 → Jun 2026 | RefreshedNot since Jun 2026The city publishes crashes about ten weeks late. |
| Food establishmentsNYC DOHMH·43nn-pn8j | Permitted food businesses within a short walk, which means restaurants and takeout counters rather than groceries or pharmacies. A permit registry is a full list, so an empty block here is really empty and not just uncovered. | 10.5% | Records31.3K | Covers— | RefreshedMonthly, last Fri 21 Aug |
| NYPD complaint dataNYPD·qgea-i56i,5uac-w243and5ucz-vwe8 | Felony assaults, robberies and murders the NYPD recorded on the street or at its door since 2021, plus break-ins of homes, per home. Only events placed midblock count, and precinct station houses are left out because the NYPD files every unplaceable crime there. | 9.8% | Records148.4Kcounted, of 985,279 on file | CoversJan 2021 → Jul 2026 | RefreshedNot since Jul 2026The city republishes the year-to-date file on a lag. |
| HPD housing violationsNYC HPD·wvxf-dwi5 | Housing maintenance violations issued against buildings on the street, per home. Violations are the closest record the city publishes of how the buildings on a block are kept. | 8.5% | Records1.5M | CoversDec 2024 → Oct 2026 | RefreshedWeekly |
| Street tree censusNYC Parks·uvpi-gqnh | Living street trees standing along the block, counted in a one-time survey. This is a count of trees and not a measure of shade or greenery, and it is the oldest input the score uses. | 7.0% | Records683.8K652,173 alive when surveyed | Covers2015 | RefreshedNever, 11 years old |
| PLUTO tax lotsNYC Planning·64uk-42ks | Homes and residential buildings on every tax lot, which is the number each complaint count is divided by. A street with fewer than twenty homes gets no grade, because a rate measured over that few homes swings too hard to mean anything. | Divides all of it | Records8,416streets, holding 3,695,132 homes | CoversAug 2026 | RefreshedLoaded Aug 2026 |
| DOB building complaintsNYC Buildings·eabe-havv | Construction, elevator and occupancy complaints filed against buildings on the street. Shown on street pages for context. Not in the score. | 0% | Records2.0M | CoversDec 1988 → Oct 2026 | RefreshedWeekly |
| Street centerline fileNYC OTI·inkn-q76z | Travel lanes, posted speed, one-way direction and the truck-route class the city assigns, averaged along each street by length. It describes the roadway and counts none of the vehicles on it. Loaded and joined to every street, shown nowhere on the site yet. Not in the score. | 0% | Records9,644streets, from 96,597 centerline segments | Covers— | RefreshedLoaded Sep 2026 |
| Stormwater flood mapNYC DEP·9i7c-xyvv | Meters of each street inside one modeled scenario, rainfall of 2.13 inches an hour against projected 2050 sea levels, sorted into deep water, nuisance water and future high tides. It is ponding and tide rather than coastal storm surge, so a street outside it is not thereby dry. Loaded and joined to every street, shown nowhere on the site yet. Not in the score. | 0% | Records9,644streets measured, 3,022 with water on them | Covers— | RefreshedLoaded Sep 2026 |
| DOB approved permitsNYC Buildings·rbx6-tga4 | Permits issued and not yet expired on buildings along the street, with sidewalk sheds counted apart from the rest. Every figure expires, which is why it stays context: a grade built on it would reshuffle the rankings each month on work that finishes. Loaded and joined to every street, shown nowhere on the site yet. Not in the score. | 0% | Records239.8K104,675 still open, 6,549 of them sidewalk sheds | CoversJan 2022 → Sep 2026 | RefreshedMonthly |
| Active liquor licensesNYS Liquor Authority·9s3h-dpkz | State licenses within 100 meters of the street, counting places licensed to serve on site apart from places licensed to sell for taking away. A license is permission to serve and not a reading of how late a block runs. Loaded and joined to every street, shown nowhere on the site yet. Not in the score. | 0% | Records24.5K15,648 serve on site, 8,808 sell for taking away | Covers— | RefreshedMonthly |
| Rent-stabilized unitsNYCDB·from tax bills | Rent-stabilized unit counts derived from property tax bill filings and matched to buildings by tax lot. Shown on street pages for context. Not in the score. | 0% | Records804.8Kunits, in 30,999 buildings | CoversAug 2026 | RefreshedLoaded Aug 2026 |
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- Name
- BestageStreet NYC Street Livability Dataset
- Version
- 2026-10-11
- URL
- https://bestagestreet.com/data-sources
BestageStreet NYC Street Livability Dataset, 2026-10-11. BestageStreet NYC. https://bestagestreet.com/data-sources
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