Orchard Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does Orchard Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, 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 Orchard Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and food nearby (100). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Orchard Street name commercial noise than any other category, 490 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Orchard Street holds 1,984 reports, and commercial noise is 25% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 221 reports, then graffiti at 135. In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on Orchard Street. The 311 file works out to about 138 reports for every 100 homes on Orchard Street.
The HPD file on Orchard Street carries 72 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Orchard Street is bed bugs, at 29 violations. Pests follows at 15 violations, then paint and lead at 12. The housing file lists 98 residential buildings on Orchard Street holding 1,437 homes, with 73 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Reported crashes on Orchard Street have injured 6 people since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, traffic safety comes in at 87, with cleanliness at 3. Orchard Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Parking ranks 63 on the same scale, with housing at 52. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 58. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Infrastructure is where Orchard Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 91.
The housing file puts 20% of the 1,437 homes on Orchard Street in rent stabilization, 285 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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Orchard Street runs through Lower East Side and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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