Bank Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Bank Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Bank Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Bank Street, with 57 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 289 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name heat and hot water. Noise follows with 53 reports, and residential noise with 32. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bank Street. Set against the 975 homes on file, that is about 30 reports per 100 homes.
Bank Street carries 15 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bank Street is pests, at 18 violations. Bed bugs follows at 16 violations. 81 residential buildings on Bank Street hold the 975 homes on file, 36 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Bank Street ranks 86 on traffic safety and 38 on infrastructure. That 38 on infrastructure puts Bank Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 64 and quietness at 39. The citywide frame puts transit at 92 and tree cover at 73. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. Bank Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Bank Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
Rent stabilization covers about 11% of the 975 homes on file, 104 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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Bank Street runs through West Village, 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).