Henry Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Henry Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 42, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Henry Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Henry Street name encampment than any other category, 239 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among built-up residential streets. Encampment accounts for 34% of the 712 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 118 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 109. The file runs across 81 distinct 311 categories in all. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on Henry Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 46 Class C violations on Henry Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Henry Street, 34 violations of it. Behind it the file holds doors (26 violations) and bed bugs (24). 83 residential buildings on Henry Street hold the 1,402 homes on file, 64 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Henry Street holds about 17 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 68 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 27. A 27 on quietness places Henry Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 44 and infrastructure at 32. Transit ranks 87 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Henry Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Henry Street is parking, at 89.
About 46% of the 1,402 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 650 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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Henry Street runs through Chinatown and Lower East Side, 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).