Lafayette Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Lafayette Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Lafayette Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (74) and transit (98). Traffic safety (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for Lafayette Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Lafayette Street have injured 63 people, and traffic safety ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. Homeless person assistance draws more reports than anything else here, 370 of them. Across every category, 833 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 44% of them name homeless person assistance. Encampment is the next most-filed at 183 reports, then illegal parking at 133. The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Lafayette Street carries roughly 111 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on Lafayette Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Lafayette Street is paint and lead, at 14 violations. Bed bugs follows at 13 violations, then pests at 12. The housing file lists 37 residential buildings on Lafayette Street holding 753 homes, with 12 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 20 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 39 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 17. Lafayette Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 38 on the same scale, with quietness at 35. Food nearby ranks 97 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 Lafayette Street, at 98. Lafayette Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
13% of the 753 homes recorded on Lafayette Street are rent-stabilized, 96 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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Lafayette Street runs through SoHo, Greenwich Village and Tribeca, 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).