Elizabeth Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311 & City Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Elizabeth Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Elizabeth Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and food nearby (100). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Elizabeth Street, with 55 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 549 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 10% of them name illegal parking. Rodent is the next most-filed at 54 reports, then residential noise at 44. Reports on Elizabeth Street span 82 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Elizabeth Street carries roughly 35 reports per 100 of them.
Elizabeth Street carries 43 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 32 violations on file. Pests accounts for 27 more, and doors for 19. City housing records put 1,583 homes in 84 residential buildings on Elizabeth Street, 54 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Elizabeth Street holds about 19 homes.
Reported crashes on Elizabeth Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Elizabeth Street ranks 80 on infrastructure and 59 on housing. Elizabeth Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts quietness at 66 and traffic safety at 64 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Elizabeth Street ranks 95 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Elizabeth Street ranks 100 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Elizabeth Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 87.
About 36% of the 1,583 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 574 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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Elizabeth Street runs through SoHo, Chinatown and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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