Lafayette Street, Manhattan NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
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 28, 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
Crashes are the mark against Lafayette Street. 63 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 11 among built-up residential streets. HPD has cited 8 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed, with 370 reports. Transit ranks 98, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 87 against every street in the city. Only about 13% of the 753 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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