Bayard Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Bayard Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 63, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 78, 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 Bayard Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and food nearby (99). Tree cover (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bayard Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 25 of them. The whole 311 file on Bayard Street holds 214 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 12% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 13 reports, then noise at 10. The file runs across 44 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 460 homes on file, that is about 47 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Bayard Street carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Bayard Street is pests, at 19 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 15 more. PLUTO counts 27 residential buildings and 460 homes on Bayard Street, with 21 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Bayard Street holds about 17 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Bayard Street ranks 83 on parking and 34 on cleanliness. Bayard Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 77 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. Against every street in the city, Bayard Street ranks 92 on transit and 10 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bayard Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Bayard Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 59% of the 460 homes on file, 272 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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Bayard Street runs through Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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