Norfolk Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Norfolk Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Norfolk Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (86) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Norfolk Street, with 80 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 358 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 68 reports, then unsanitary condition at 39. Reports on Norfolk Street span 54 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Norfolk Street carries roughly 47 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Norfolk Street carries 59 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Norfolk Street is pests, at 21 violations. Doors accounts for 18 more, and paint and lead for 12. The housing file lists 25 residential buildings on Norfolk Street holding 758 homes, with 13 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 30 homes each.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, parking comes in at 82, with housing at 31. That 31 on housing puts Norfolk Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 60 on the same scale, with quietness at 32. Against every street in the city, Norfolk Street ranks 94 on transit and 48 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Norfolk Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 86.
About 46% of the 758 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 349 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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Norfolk Street runs through Lower East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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