Delancey Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Delancey Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Delancey Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against Delancey Street. Reported crashes here have injured 306 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among built-up residential streets. Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Delancey Street, with 338 reports. The whole 311 file on Delancey Street holds 751 reports, and commercial noise is 45% of it. Encampment follows with 113 reports, and illegal parking with 93. The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Delancey Street carries roughly 17 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 36 Class C violations on Delancey Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Delancey Street, 12 violations of it. Pests accounts for 12 more. PLUTO counts 27 residential buildings and 4,302 homes on Delancey Street, with 13 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 159 homes each.
Among built-up residential streets, Delancey Street ranks 85 on housing and 17 on cleanliness. A 17 on cleanliness places Delancey Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 81 on the same scale, with quietness at 61. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. Delancey Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is where Delancey Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 92.
8% of the 4,302 homes recorded on Delancey Street are rent-stabilized, 339 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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Delancey Street runs through Lower East 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).