Chrystie Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Chrystie Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 21, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Chrystie Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (63) and food nearby (100). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Chrystie Street, with 89 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 488 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 77 reports, then commercial noise at 77. In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on Chrystie Street. Divided by the homes on file, Chrystie Street carries roughly 95 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on Chrystie Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 17 violations on file. Bed bugs accounts for 12 more. PLUTO counts 32 residential buildings and 516 homes on Chrystie Street, with 16 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Since 2021, 99 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 55, with traffic safety at 3. Chrystie Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts parking at 49 and quietness at 16 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. Chrystie Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Chrystie Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 63.
Rent stabilization covers about 38% of the 516 homes on file, 196 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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Chrystie Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, 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).