Baxter Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does Baxter Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Baxter Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (85) and food nearby (99). Tree cover (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise leads the 311 file on Baxter Street, with 29 reports. Across every category, 146 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name commercial noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (13 reports) and general construction and plumbing (10). In all, 36 distinct 311 categories are represented on Baxter Street. The 311 file works out to about 66 reports for every 100 homes on Baxter Street.
HPD has cited 7 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on Baxter Street holding 222 homes, with 8 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Baxter Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 66, with quietness at 26. Baxter Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts housing at 58 and traffic safety at 37 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Baxter Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
48% of the 222 homes recorded on Baxter Street are rent-stabilized, 106 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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Baxter Street runs through Tribeca and SoHo, 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).