Allen Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Allen Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 18, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 95, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Allen Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Allen Street, with 178 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 759 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to commercial noise (126 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (70). Reports on Allen Street span 78 distinct 311 categories. About 109 reports per 100 homes sit on Allen Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 58 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Allen Street, 22 violations of it. The housing file lists 44 residential buildings on Allen Street holding 698 homes, with 30 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Reported crashes on Allen Street have injured 61 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Allen Street ranks 35 on infrastructure and 8 on traffic safety. An 8 on traffic safety places Allen Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 33 and quietness at 10. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 82. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Allen Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Allen Street is parking, at 72.
34% of the 698 homes recorded on Allen Street are rent-stabilized, 239 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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Allen Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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