Division Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Division Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Division Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (65) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment leads the 311 file on Division Street, with 66 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Division Street holds 229 reports, and encampment is 29% of it. Illegal parking follows with 47 reports, and commercial noise with 34. Reports on Division Street span 44 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 141 reports for every 100 homes on Division Street.
Inspectors have written 10 Class C violations on Division Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is heat and hot water, with 11 violations on file. 21 residential buildings on Division Street hold the 162 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Division Street holds about 7.7 homes.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Division Street ranks 41 on infrastructure and 25 on quietness. Division Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on quietness. Parking ranks 40 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 27. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Division Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
About 45% of the 162 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 73 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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Division Street runs through Chinatown, 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).