Morton Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Morton Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 50, 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 Morton Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (99). Street crime (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Morton Street, with 64 reports. The whole 311 file on Morton Street holds 129 reports, and residential noise is 50% of it. Sidewalk condition follows with 17 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 15. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on Morton Street. Divided by the homes on file, Morton Street carries roughly 29 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on Morton Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 448 homes in 40 residential buildings on Morton Street, 23 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Morton Street holds about 11 homes.
Since 2021, 5 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 75, with traffic safety at 36. A 36 on traffic safety places Morton Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, cleanliness sits at 66 and quietness at 41. Against every street in the city, Morton Street ranks 95 on transit and 61 on tree cover. Morton Street ranks 99 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Morton Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Morton Street is parking, at 98.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 448 homes on file, 69 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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Morton Street runs through West Village, 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).