Howard Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Howard Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 99, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Howard Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (91) and transit (100). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Howard Street, with 27 reports. Across every category, 51 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 53% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Behind it sits residential noise, with 16 reports. Reports on Howard Street span 25 distinct 311 categories. About 222 reports per 100 homes sit on Howard Street, counting every category.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on Howard Street. PLUTO counts 5 residential buildings and 23 homes on Howard Street, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 4.6 homes each.
Among quiet residential streets, Howard Street ranks 88 on parking and 12 on quietness. A 12 on quietness places Howard Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts housing at 84 and traffic safety at 39 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Howard Street ranks 100 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Howard Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Howard Street is cleanliness, at 91.
Of the 23 homes on file, none 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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Howard Street runs through SoHo, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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