Catherine Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Catherine Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 24, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 81, 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 Catherine Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (86) and food nearby (94). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Catherine Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 58 of them. The whole 311 file on Catherine Street holds 199 reports, and heat and hot water is 29% of it. Encampment follows with 54 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 23. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. About 79 reports per 100 homes sit on Catherine Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 40 Class C violations on Catherine Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Catherine Street, 33 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (13 violations) and doors (11). PLUTO counts 15 residential buildings and 251 homes on Catherine Street, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on Catherine Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 54, with cleanliness at 4. A 4 on cleanliness places Catherine Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, quietness sits at 34 and traffic safety at 9. The citywide frame puts transit at 85 and tree cover at 50. Catherine Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Catherine Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Catherine Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 86.
About 66% of the 251 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 152 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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Catherine Street runs through Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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