Cliff Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does Cliff Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 80, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Cliff Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (99). Tree cover (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Cliff Street name illegal parking than any other category, 90 of them. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 10 reports. In all, 21 distinct 311 categories are represented on Cliff Street. The 311 file works out to about 39 reports for every 100 homes on Cliff Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Cliff Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 4 residential buildings on Cliff Street hold the 163 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 41 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 96, with parking at 32. Cliff Street sits in the weaker half of quiet residential streets on parking. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 86 and housing at 69. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 97 and tree cover at 5. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Cliff Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
None of the 163 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Cliff Street runs through Financial District, 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).