Jacobus Place, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Jacobus Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Jacobus Place in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (84). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Jacobus Place, with 220 reports. Across every category, 346 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 64% of them name heat and hot water. Paint and plaster follows with 36 reports, and unsanitary condition with 35. The file runs across 19 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 202 homes on file, that is about 171 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Jacobus Place carries 73 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 36 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on Jacobus Place, 97 violations of it. Pests accounts for 66 more, and structure for 46. 4 residential buildings on Jacobus Place hold the 202 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 51 homes to a building.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among quiet residential streets, Jacobus Place ranks 81 on parking and 1 on housing. A 1 on housing places Jacobus Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, infrastructure sits at 76 and cleanliness at 18. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Jacobus Place, at 84. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Jacobus Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Jacobus Place is traffic safety, at 99.
About 99% of the 202 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 199 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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Jacobus Place runs through Kingsbridge, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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