Ludlow Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Ludlow Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Ludlow Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on Ludlow Street, with 452 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 948 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 48% of them name commercial noise. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 227 reports, then graffiti at 105. The file runs across 68 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 954 homes on file, that is about 99 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 40 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is doors, with 19 violations on file. Pests accounts for 18 more, and structure for 15. The housing file lists 58 residential buildings on Ludlow Street holding 954 homes, with 46 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on Ludlow Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 59 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 3. A 3 on quietness places Ludlow Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 48 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 48. The citywide frame puts transit at 96 and tree cover at 43. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Ludlow Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 92.
39% of the 954 homes recorded on Ludlow Street are rent-stabilized, 362 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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Ludlow Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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