Duane Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does Duane Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 81, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Duane Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (92) and transit (99). Tree cover (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on Duane Street, with 53 reports. The whole 311 file on Duane Street holds 145 reports, and illegal parking is 37% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (22 reports) and commercial noise (14). Reports on Duane Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 796 homes on file, that is about 18 reports per 100 homes.
Duane Street carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Duane Street, 13 violations of it. Doors follows at 11 violations, then pests at 11. PLUTO counts 41 residential buildings and 796 homes on Duane Street, with 4 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Reported crashes on Duane Street have injured 5 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 90 among built-up residential streets and housing ranks 63. A 63 on housing places Duane Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 89 and cleanliness at 75 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Duane Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Duane Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Duane Street is infrastructure, at 92.
The housing file puts 12% of the 796 homes on Duane Street in rent stabilization, 99 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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Duane Street runs through Tribeca, 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).