Macombs Place, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does Macombs Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 49, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 63, 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 Macombs Place in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (95) and transit (84). Street crime (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on Macombs Place, with 81 reports. The whole 311 file on Macombs Place holds 237 reports, and heat and hot water is 34% of it. Commercial noise is the next most-filed at 23 reports, then residential noise at 21. In all, 39 distinct 311 categories are represented on Macombs Place. The 311 file works out to about 43 reports for every 100 homes on Macombs Place.
Macombs Place carries 55 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Macombs Place is pests, at 29 violations. Paint and lead follows at 29 violations, then heat and hot water at 19. 7 residential buildings on Macombs Place hold the 546 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 78 homes each.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Macombs Place ranks 94 on infrastructure and 22 on housing. A 22 on housing places Macombs Place in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 90 and traffic safety at 23 among built-up residential streets. Tree cover ranks 46 and food nearby 39, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Macombs Place, at 84. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Cleanliness is where Macombs Place ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 546 homes on file, 74 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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Macombs Place runs through Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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