Market Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does Market Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 79, 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 Market Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Market Street, with 40 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 172 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to commercial noise (39 reports) and heat and hot water (27). The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 353 homes on file, that is about 49 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on Market Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Market Street, 10 violations of it. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 353 homes on Market Street, with 14 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Reported crashes on Market Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 91 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 33. A 33 on traffic safety places Market Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 60 and housing at 52 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 85 and tree cover 40, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. Market Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
40% of the 353 homes recorded on Market Street are rent-stabilized, 141 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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Market Street runs through Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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