Isham Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does Isham Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 84, 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 Isham Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (65) and transit (91). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Isham Street, with 116 reports. Across every category, 624 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 109 reports, then residential noise at 59. The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Isham Street carries roughly 122 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 92 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 18 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Isham Street is paint and lead, at 72 violations. Doors follows at 41 violations, then pests at 41. 12 residential buildings on Isham Street hold the 512 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Isham Street holds about 43 homes.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Isham Street ranks 32 on traffic safety and 7 on quietness. A 7 on quietness places Isham Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 31 and parking at 29 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 90 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Isham Street, at 91. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Isham Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where Isham Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 65.
Rent stabilization covers about 72% of the 512 homes on file, 367 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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Isham Street runs through Inwood, 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).