King Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does King Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 King Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (75) and transit (99). Street crime (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on King Street name street condition than any other category, 46 of them. Across every category, 106 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 43% of them name street condition. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 27 reports, then illegal parking at 25. The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. About 27 reports per 100 homes sit on King Street, counting every category.
King Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 32 residential buildings and 395 homes on King Street, with 17 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Among built-up residential streets, King Street ranks 71 on housing and 38 on infrastructure. That 38 on infrastructure puts King Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 68 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 59. Food nearby ranks 98 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on King Street, at 99. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band King Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on King Street is quietness, at 75.
About 21% of the 395 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 82 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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King 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).