Clinton Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Clinton Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Clinton Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (69) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Traffic is the most-filed complaint on Clinton Street, with 1,465 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. After that the file runs to residential noise (171 reports) and illegal parking (157). In all, 72 distinct 311 categories are represented on Clinton Street. Divided by the homes on file, Clinton Street carries roughly 59 reports per 100 of them.
Clinton Street carries 16 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 Clinton Street is pests, at 14 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (13 violations) and bed bugs (12). 51 residential buildings on Clinton Street hold the 1,332 homes on file, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 26 homes each.
Since 2021, 28 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Clinton Street ranks 51 on parking and 21 on quietness. Clinton Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 47 and traffic safety at 42 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 88 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Clinton Street, at 96. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Clinton Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Clinton Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 69.
About 25% of the 1,332 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 333 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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Clinton Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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