Mac Dougal Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311 & City Data
Grade B, 66 out of 100. How does Mac Dougal Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 66 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Mac Dougal Street in the top 12% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (100). Quietness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on Mac Dougal Street, with 131 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 682 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 58 reports, then outdoor dining at 57. Reports on Mac Dougal Street span 46 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 78 reports for every 100 homes on Mac Dougal Street.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on Mac Dougal Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 23 violations on file. Pests accounts for 18 more. PLUTO counts 65 residential buildings and 878 homes on Mac Dougal Street, with 37 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on Mac Dougal Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 49. Mac Dougal Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 68 and infrastructure at 51. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 52. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Mac Dougal Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is where Mac Dougal Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 27% of the 878 homes on file, 232 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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Mac Dougal Street runs through Greenwich Village and SoHo, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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