Ellwood Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Ellwood Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 72, 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 Ellwood Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (79) and food nearby (87). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Ellwood Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 250 of them. Across every category, 1,386 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 238 reports, then residential noise at 122. In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on Ellwood Street. About 205 reports per 100 homes sit on Ellwood Street, counting every category.
Ellwood Street carries 240 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 36 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Ellwood Street, 116 violations of it. Pests follows at 102 violations, then doors at 69. City housing records put 675 homes in 12 residential buildings on Ellwood Street, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 56 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Ellwood Street ranks 72 on parking and 1 on housing. That 1 on housing puts Ellwood Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Cleanliness ranks 47 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 17. Against every street in the city, Ellwood Street ranks 71 on transit and 54 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Ellwood Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
83% of the 675 homes recorded on Ellwood Street are rent-stabilized, 563 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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Ellwood Street runs through Washington Heights, 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).