Kenmare Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Kenmare Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.

Calm 31, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Kenmare Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on parking (95) and food nearby (99). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against Kenmare Street. Reported crashes here have injured 36 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among quiet residential streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed, with 22 reports. Across every category, 107 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to commercial noise (20 reports) and obstruction (14). Reports on Kenmare Street span 45 distinct 311 categories. About 153 reports per 100 homes sit on Kenmare Street, counting every category.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on Kenmare Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 3 residential buildings and 70 homes on Kenmare Street, with 1 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.

Against quiet residential streets, housing comes in at 92, with quietness at 7. A 7 on quietness places Kenmare Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 60 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 14. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 19, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Kenmare Street is ranked against about 1,970 quiet residential streets citywide.

The strongest band-ranked measure on Kenmare Street is parking, at 95.

About 24% of the 70 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 17 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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

Kenmare Street runs through SoHo, 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).

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