Grove Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does Grove Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.

Calm 65, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 Grove Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (99). Street crime (13) is the weak spot.

On the record

More 311 reports on Grove Street name outdoor dining than any other category, 32 of them. Across every category, 126 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name outdoor dining. After that the file runs to residential noise (27 reports) and obstruction (19). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Grove Street carries roughly 25 reports per 100 of them.

The HPD file on Grove Street carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. 42 residential buildings on Grove Street hold the 509 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Grove Street holds about 12 homes.

Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.

Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 97, with quietness at 58. Grove Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 89 and housing at 60 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Grove Street ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. 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 98.

The housing file puts 19% of the 509 homes on Grove Street in rent stabilization, 98 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

Grove 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).

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