Cherry Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does Cherry Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 84, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 73, 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 Cherry Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (83). Tree cover (56) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Cherry Street, with 157 reports. Across every category, 508 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name residential noise. Encampment follows with 61 reports, and illegal parking with 45. The file runs across 64 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 4,410 homes on file, that is about 12 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 54 Class C violations on Cherry Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 18 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (18 violations) and pests (16). 7 residential buildings on Cherry Street hold the 4,410 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 630 homes each.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on Cherry Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Cherry Street ranks 95 on infrastructure and 72 on housing. A 72 on housing places Cherry Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 90 and quietness at 74 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 74 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Cherry Street, at 83. Cherry Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Cherry Street is parking, at 97.
16% of the 4,410 homes recorded on Cherry Street are rent-stabilized, 695 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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Cherry Street runs through Chinatown and Lower East Side, 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).