Mott Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does Mott Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 91, 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 Mott Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Mott Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 293 of them, and cleanliness ranks 10 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,016 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 214 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 160. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on Mott Street. About 53 reports per 100 homes sit on Mott Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 130 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 48 violations on file. Heat and hot water follows at 47 violations, then paint and lead at 42. 119 residential buildings on Mott Street hold the 1,920 homes on file, 95 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Mott Street ranks 71 on infrastructure and 49 on housing. That 49 on housing puts Mott Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 67 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. The citywide frame puts transit at 98 and tree cover at 62. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Mott Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
43% of the 1,920 homes recorded on Mott Street are rent-stabilized, 819 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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Mott Street runs through SoHo, Chinatown and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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