Forsyth Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Forsyth Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 26, 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 Forsyth Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (57) and food nearby (100). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Forsyth Street, with 149 reports. Across every category, 572 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to illegal parking (50 reports) and heat and hot water (23). In all, 59 distinct 311 categories are represented on Forsyth Street. The 311 file works out to about 101 reports for every 100 homes on Forsyth Street.
The HPD file on Forsyth Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on Forsyth Street, 11 violations of it. City housing records put 567 homes in 33 residential buildings on Forsyth Street, 22 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
Reported crashes on Forsyth Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Forsyth Street ranks 43 on housing and 6 on cleanliness. Forsyth Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. The card also puts traffic safety at 36 and infrastructure at 34 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Forsyth Street, at 100. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Forsyth Street is scored inside.
Parking is where Forsyth Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 57.
About 27% of the 567 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 154 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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Forsyth Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, 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).