Front Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Front Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Front Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and transit (95). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Front Street name illegal parking than any other category, 256 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 335 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 76% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to rodent (23 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (19). In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Front Street. About 157 reports per 100 homes sit on Front Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 14 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 17 residential buildings on Front Street holding 214 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Front Street ranks 63 on infrastructure and 8 on parking. Front Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on parking. Housing ranks 55 on the same scale, with quietness at 31. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Front Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Front Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where Front Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 88.
The housing file puts 38% of the 214 homes on Front Street in rent stabilization, 82 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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Front Street runs through Financial District, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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