Bedford Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Bedford Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, 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 Bedford Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and food nearby (100). Housing (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street condition leads the 311 file on Bedford Street, with 63 reports. Across every category, 262 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name street condition. Outdoor dining is the next most-filed at 40 reports, then residential noise at 36. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 528 homes on file, that is about 50 reports per 100 homes.
Bedford Street carries 40 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bedford Street, 12 violations of it. City housing records put 528 homes in 60 residential buildings on Bedford Street, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Bedford Street holds about 8.8 homes.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 72 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 48. Bedford Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 59 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 57. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 61. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Bedford Street, at 100. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Bedford Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Bedford Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 87.
The housing file puts 16% of the 528 homes on Bedford Street in rent stabilization, 87 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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Bedford 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).