Mercer Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does Mercer Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 62, 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 Mercer Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and transit (99). Cleanliness (34) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Mercer Street name obstruction than any other category, 83 of them, and cleanliness ranks 34 among built-up residential streets. Obstruction accounts for 29% of the 283 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 58 reports, then residential noise at 55. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mercer Street. Divided by the homes on file, Mercer Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on Mercer Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 43 residential buildings and 835 homes on Mercer Street, with 2 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Mercer Street holds about 19 homes.
Reported crashes on Mercer Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Mercer Street ranks 83 on parking and 52 on quietness. A 52 on quietness places Mercer Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 77 and infrastructure at 67 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 54, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Mercer Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is where Mercer Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 90.
5% of the 835 homes recorded on Mercer Street are rent-stabilized, 44 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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Mercer Street runs through SoHo and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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