Christopher Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Christopher Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Christopher Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and food nearby (97). Quietness (50) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Christopher Street, with 52 reports. The whole 311 file on Christopher Street holds 452 reports, and heat and hot water is 12% of it. Dirty condition follows with 46 reports, and illegal parking with 44. The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Christopher Street carries roughly 32 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 53 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Christopher Street is heat and hot water, at 19 violations. Pests follows at 13 violations, then paint and lead at 13. City housing records put 1,412 homes in 55 residential buildings on Christopher Street, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 26 homes to a building.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on Christopher Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 74 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 61. That 61 on housing puts Christopher Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 69 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 62. Against every street in the city, Christopher Street ranks 93 on transit and 73 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Christopher Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Christopher Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 96.
9% of the 1,412 homes recorded on Christopher Street are rent-stabilized, 123 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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Christopher Street runs through West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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