Grand Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does Grand Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 92, 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 Grand Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Grand Street name illegal parking than any other category, 169 of them, and cleanliness ranks 9 among built-up residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 16% of the 1,059 reports on file here. Graffiti is the next most-filed at 98 reports, then residential noise at 86. Reports on Grand Street span 89 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 4,696 homes on file, that is about 23 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 27 Class C violations on Grand Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Grand Street is structure, at 29 violations. Pests accounts for 22 more, and bed bugs for 20. The housing file lists 108 residential buildings on Grand Street holding 4,696 homes, with 22 walk-ups and 25 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 43 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 160 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Grand Street ranks 86 on housing and 25 on traffic safety. That 25 on traffic safety puts Grand Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 74 on the same scale, with quietness at 70. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 4,696 homes on file, 198 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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Grand Street runs through Lower East Side and SoHo, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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