Gay Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Gay Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Gay Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (60) and transit (100). Tree cover (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Homeless person assistance leads the 311 file on Gay Street, with 25 reports. Encampment follows with 20 reports, and drug activity with 20. In all, 15 distinct 311 categories are represented on Gay Street.
The HPD file on Gay Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 22 homes in 7 residential buildings on Gay Street, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Gay Street holds about 3.1 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Gay Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 57 among quiet residential streets and quietness ranks 10. A 10 on quietness places Gay Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 45 and housing at 15 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 99 and tree cover 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Gay Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Gay Street is parking, at 60.
None of the 22 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
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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Gay Street runs through West Village, 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).