Madison Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Madison Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 Madison Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and food nearby (93). Quietness (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Madison Street, with 404 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,080 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (179 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (72). Reports on Madison Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on Madison Street.
Inspectors have written 57 Class C violations on Madison Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 56 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (47 violations) and heat and hot water (24). 51 residential buildings on Madison Street hold the 3,183 homes on file, 37 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Madison Street holds about 62 homes.
NYPD records 52 people injured in crashes on Madison Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 83 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 28. A 28 on cleanliness places Madison Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 62 and traffic safety at 45 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, Madison Street ranks 92 on transit and 60 on tree cover. Madison Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Madison Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Madison Street is parking, at 93.
12% of the 3,183 homes recorded on Madison Street are rent-stabilized, 366 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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Madison Street runs through Chinatown, Lower East Side and 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).