Bleecker Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does Bleecker Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, 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 Bleecker Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (98). Traffic safety (53) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Bleecker Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Bleecker Street have injured 63 people, and traffic safety ranks 53 among built-up residential streets. Street/sidewalk noise draws more reports than anything else here, 125 of them. The whole 311 file on Bleecker Street holds 712 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 18% of it. Obstruction follows with 112 reports, and illegal parking with 104. In all, 87 distinct 311 categories are represented on Bleecker Street. Set against the 2,614 homes on file, that is about 27 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 57 Class C violations on Bleecker Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Bleecker Street, 37 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (35 violations) and doors (20). PLUTO counts 160 residential buildings and 2,614 homes on Bleecker Street, with 36 walk-ups and 12 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Bleecker Street holds about 16 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 84, with cleanliness at 54. That 54 on cleanliness puts Bleecker Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 77 on the same scale, with quietness at 71. Against every street in the city, Bleecker Street ranks 98 on food nearby and 75 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Bleecker Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Bleecker Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 2,614 homes on file, 237 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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Bleecker Street runs through Greenwich Village and West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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