Prince Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Prince Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 44, 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 Prince Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (68) and transit (99). Cleanliness (31) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Prince Street, with 221 reports, and cleanliness ranks 31 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 589 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to commercial noise (116 reports) and for hire vehicle complaint (86). The file runs across 69 distinct 311 categories in all. About 63 reports per 100 homes sit on Prince Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 16 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Prince Street, 27 violations of it. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (18 violations) and paint and lead (13). 66 residential buildings on Prince Street hold the 934 homes on file, 20 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
NYPD records 27 people injured in crashes on Prince Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 42 among built-up residential streets and parking ranks 38. A 38 on parking places Prince Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts quietness at 39 and traffic safety at 38 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 98 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Prince Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 68.
Rent stabilization covers about 9% of the 934 homes on file, 84 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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Prince Street runs through SoHo, 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).