Old Broadway, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 33 out of 100. How does Old Broadway in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 33 out of 100.
Calm 8, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Old Broadway in the bottom 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (29) and transit (96). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Old Broadway name illegal parking than any other category, 162 of them, and cleanliness ranks 0 among quiet residential streets. Illegal parking accounts for 60% of the 268 reports on file here. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (89 reports) and heat and hot water (59). Reports on Old Broadway span 37 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 54 homes on file, that is about 496 reports per 100 homes.
Old Broadway carries 27 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 16 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 13 violations. The housing file lists 3 residential buildings on Old Broadway holding 54 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 18 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 18 among quiet residential streets and housing ranks 1. Old Broadway sits in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets on housing. Measured against quiet residential streets, quietness sits at 4 and parking at 1. Against every street in the city, Old Broadway ranks 87 on food nearby and 29 on tree cover. Old Broadway ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 29.
The housing file puts 30% of the 54 homes on Old Broadway in rent stabilization, 16 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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Old Broadway runs through Manhattanville, 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).