Barrow Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does Barrow Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 52, 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 Barrow Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (84) and food nearby (98). Quietness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Barrow Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 51 of them. The whole 311 file on Barrow Street holds 250 reports, and heat and hot water is 20% of it. Noise is the next most-filed at 43 reports, then encampment at 33. The file runs across 55 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 509 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Barrow Street carries 25 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Barrow Street is bed bugs, at 10 violations. 44 residential buildings on Barrow Street hold the 509 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Barrow Street holds about 12 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 83, with infrastructure at 30. A 30 on infrastructure places Barrow Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 52 and cleanliness at 48. Against every street in the city, Barrow Street ranks 95 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Barrow Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Barrow Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 84.
10% of the 509 homes recorded on Barrow Street are rent-stabilized, 51 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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Barrow Street runs through West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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