Commerce Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does Commerce Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Commerce Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and food nearby (99). Parking (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Commerce Street, with 47 reports, and parking ranks 3 among quiet residential streets. Across every category, 180 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 44 reports. Reports on Commerce Street span 39 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Commerce Street carries roughly 286 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 2 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 20 residential buildings and 63 homes on Commerce Street, with 5 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Commerce Street holds about 3.2 homes.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Commerce Street ranks 26 on housing and 4 on infrastructure. Commerce Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 15 and cleanliness at 14. Against every street in the city, Commerce Street ranks 96 on transit and 39 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Commerce Street is traffic safety, at 90.
The housing file puts 17% of the 63 homes on Commerce Street in rent stabilization, 11 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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Commerce Street runs through West Village, 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).