Main Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does Main Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 95, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 41, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but little within a walk.
That puts Main Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (100) and food nearby (42). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot. Access is 35% of this grade. If you drive, it likely understates your block.
On the record
More 311 reports on Main Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 87 of them. The whole 311 file on Main Street holds 524 reports, and heat and hot water is 17% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 69 reports, then unsanitary condition at 55. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 11,956 homes on file, that is about 4 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 92 Class C violations here, 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 doors, with 33 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 33 violations, then pests at 19. City housing records put 11,956 homes in 13 residential buildings on Main Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Main Street holds about 920 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 99, with housing at 80. That 80 on housing puts Main Street in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets. Infrastructure ranks 98 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 95. Against every street in the city, Main Street ranks 40 on transit and 0 on tree cover. Main Street ranks 42 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Main Street is parking, at 100.
The housing file puts 3% of the 11,956 homes on Main Street in rent stabilization, 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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Main Street runs through Upper East Side, 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).