Charlton Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does Charlton Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Charlton Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (85) and transit (99). Tree cover (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Charlton Street, with 339 reports. After that the file runs to illegal parking (75 reports) and general construction and plumbing (26). Reports on Charlton Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 900 homes on file, that is about 16 reports per 100 homes.
Charlton Street carries 7 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Charlton Street is structure, at 10 violations. 28 residential buildings on Charlton Street hold the 900 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Charlton Street holds about 32 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 80, with quietness at 76. Charlton Street sits in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts housing at 80 and infrastructure at 79 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 98 and tree cover 48, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Charlton Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Charlton Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Charlton Street is parking, at 82.
About 12% of the 900 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 104 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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Charlton Street runs through SoHo, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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