Cumming Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Cumming Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Cumming Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (77) and food nearby (88). Housing (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Unsanitary condition leads the 311 file on Cumming Street, with 87 reports. Across every category, 244 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 36% of them name unsanitary condition. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 55 reports, and heat and hot water with 47. Reports on Cumming Street span 28 distinct 311 categories. About 498 reports per 100 homes sit on Cumming Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 35 Class C violations on Cumming Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Cumming Street, 59 violations of it. Pests accounts for 47 more, and structure for 33.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Cumming Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, parking comes in at 77, with quietness at 2. That 2 on quietness puts Cumming Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 67 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 47. The citywide frame puts transit at 87 and tree cover at 23. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Cumming Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 90% of the 49 homes on file, 44 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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Cumming Street runs through Inwood, 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).