Downing Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does Downing Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 Downing Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (100). Street crime (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Downing Street, with 29 reports. Across every category, 67 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to homeless person assistance (20 reports) and drug activity (14). In all, 38 distinct 311 categories are represented on Downing Street. Divided by the homes on file, Downing Street carries roughly 18 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Downing Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 26 residential buildings and 368 homes on Downing Street, with 12 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Downing Street holds about 14 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Downing Street ranks 88 on traffic safety and 50 on cleanliness. A 50 on cleanliness places Downing Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Housing ranks 84 on the same scale, with quietness at 68. Against every street in the city, Downing Street ranks 99 on food nearby and 40 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Downing Street is parking, at 95.
The housing file puts 19% of the 368 homes on Downing Street in rent stabilization, 69 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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Downing Street runs through West Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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