Monroe Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does Monroe Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 83, 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 Monroe Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment leads the 311 file on Monroe Street, with 170 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Monroe Street holds 297 reports, and encampment is 57% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 43 reports, and illegal parking with 35. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on Monroe Street. The 311 file works out to about 95 reports for every 100 homes on Monroe Street.
HPD has cited 17 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 12 violations on file. City housing records put 312 homes in 20 residential buildings on Monroe Street, 13 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Monroe Street holds about 16 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 57, with quietness at 17. Monroe Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on quietness. The card also puts parking at 37 and housing at 29 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 88 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Monroe Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where Monroe Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 86.
The housing file puts 55% of the 312 homes on Monroe Street in rent stabilization, 171 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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Monroe Street runs through Chinatown and Lower 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).