Eldridge Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Eldridge Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Eldridge Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and food nearby (100). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Eldridge Street, with 410 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,111 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name commercial noise. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 238 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 182. The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,129 homes on file, that is about 98 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 44 Class C violations on Eldridge Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Eldridge Street is bed bugs, at 23 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (22 violations) and heat and hot water (15). City housing records put 1,129 homes in 63 residential buildings on Eldridge Street, 46 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 18 homes to a building.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Eldridge Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with quietness at 4. A 4 on quietness places Eldridge Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 48 and infrastructure at 39 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Eldridge Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Eldridge Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 95.
The housing file puts 32% of the 1,129 homes on Eldridge Street in rent stabilization, 357 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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Eldridge Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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