Lispenard Street, Manhattan NYC — Tribeca Hidden Gem | 2026
Lispenard Street: a quiet Tribeca side street with cobblestones and loft living. Safety, noise, and cleanliness data from 311 reports.
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Lispenard Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (98) and transit (100). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Lispenard Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 70 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of quiet residential streets. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 28% of the 251 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 20 reports, and dirty condition with 17. In all, 28 distinct 311 categories are represented on Lispenard Street. Divided by the homes on file, Lispenard Street carries roughly 270 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Lispenard Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 15 residential buildings on Lispenard Street hold the 93 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Lispenard Street holds about 6.2 homes.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 80 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 18. That 18 on cleanliness puts Lispenard Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 48 and parking at 30 among quiet residential streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 7, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Lispenard Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Lispenard Street is traffic safety, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 2% of the 93 homes on file, 2 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
- Canal Street, Manhattan
- White Street, Manhattan
- Howard Street, Manhattan
- Franklin Street, Manhattan
- Grand Street, Manhattan
- Leonard Street, Manhattan
Lispenard Street runs through 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).