Columbus Cir, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Columbus Cir in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.

Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Columbus Cir in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (94) and transit (100). Tree cover (15) is the weak spot.

On the record

About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on Columbus Circle, counting every category.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Columbus Circle, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk.

Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 78 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 24. A 24 on traffic safety places Columbus Circle in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 65 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 45. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Columbus Circle, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Columbus Circle is housing, at 94.

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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

Columbus Cir runs through Upper West 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).

The full report for Columbus Circle