Centre Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does Centre Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Centre Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (94) and food nearby (99). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Centre Street. Reported crashes here have injured 41 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among quiet residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed, with 158 reports. Across every category, 230 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 69% of them name homeless person assistance. After that the file runs to illegal parking (96 reports) and maintenance or facility (41). Reports on Centre Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Centre Street carries roughly 299 reports per 100 of them.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Centre Street. City housing records put 77 homes in 6 residential buildings on Centre Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Against quiet residential streets, quietness comes in at 34, with cleanliness at 6. Centre Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 29 and parking at 13 among quiet residential streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 27, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Centre Street, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Centre Street is housing, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 10% of the 77 homes on file, 8 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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Centre Street runs through Tribeca and SoHo, 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).