Barclay Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does Barclay Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.

Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Barclay Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (97) and transit (99). Parking (4) is the weak spot.

On the record

Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Barclay Street, with 173 reports, and parking ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 371 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 47% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to homeless person assistance (46 reports) and encampment (13). In all, 32 distinct 311 categories are represented on Barclay Street. Divided by the homes on file, Barclay Street carries roughly 94 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Barclay Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk.

Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 92 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 42. Barclay Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 52 and traffic safety at 48. Against every street in the city, Barclay Street ranks 98 on food nearby and 37 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Barclay Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Barclay Street is housing, at 97.

The housing file puts 98% of the 396 homes on Barclay Street in rent stabilization, 387 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

Barclay Street runs through Tribeca, 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).

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