Charles Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does Charles 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 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 Charles Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and food nearby (98). Street crime (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Outdoor dining leads the 311 file on Charles Street, with 37 reports. Across every category, 235 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name outdoor dining. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 27 reports, then illegal parking at 26. Reports on Charles Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 951 homes on file, that is about 25 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Charles Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Charles Street is doors, at 60 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 24 more, and pests for 13. PLUTO counts 84 residential buildings and 951 homes on Charles Street, with 38 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Charles Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 78, with quietness at 52. A 52 on quietness places Charles Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 77 and housing at 68. Against every street in the city, Charles Street ranks 96 on transit and 69 on tree cover. Charles Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Charles Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 93.
The housing file puts 20% of the 951 homes on Charles Street in rent stabilization, 194 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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Charles Street runs through West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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