Bethune Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Bethune Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Bethune Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (91) and food nearby (95). Quietness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Bethune Street name residential noise than any other category, 11 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Across every category, 46 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. Reports on Bethune Street span 21 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 35 reports for every 100 homes on Bethune Street.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Bethune Street. PLUTO counts 20 residential buildings and 131 homes on Bethune Street, with 12 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 6.6 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 73, with traffic safety at 32. Bethune Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on traffic safety. Infrastructure ranks 50 on the same scale, with housing at 46. Transit ranks 87 and tree cover 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Bethune Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Bethune Street ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 131 homes on file, 2 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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Bethune 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).