John Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does John Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 83, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts John Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and transit (98). Tree cover (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on John Street, with 157 reports. Across every category, 379 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to noise (117 reports) and vendor enforcement (55). Reports on John Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, John Street carries roughly 16 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on John Street is doors, at 15 violations. Behind it the file holds structure, at 14 violations. City housing records put 2,349 homes in 14 residential buildings on John Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on John Street holds about 168 homes.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 76. That 76 on infrastructure puts John Street in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 82 and traffic safety at 78 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 22, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on John Street, at 98. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band John Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
1% of the 2,349 homes recorded on John Street are rent-stabilized, 19 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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John Street runs through Financial District, 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).