Jay Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Jay Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Jay Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (70) and transit (96). Tree cover (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
The file runs across 18 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 48 homes on file, that is about 67 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Jay Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. City housing records put 48 homes in 9 residential buildings on Jay Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 5.3 homes to a building.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Jay Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 54 among quiet residential streets and infrastructure ranks 9. Jay Street sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on infrastructure. The card also puts quietness at 37 and cleanliness at 14 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 5, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Jay Street, at 96. Jay Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Jay Street is traffic safety, at 70.
Of the 48 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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Jay Street runs through Tribeca, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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