Rector Place, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does Rector Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 82, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 85, 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 Rector Place in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (100) and transit (91). Quietness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Rector Place name helicopter noise than any other category, 388 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. Across every category, 441 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 88% of them name helicopter noise. Illegal parking follows with 69 reports, and noise with 60. Reports on Rector Place span 33 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,755 homes on file, that is about 25 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Rector Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 8 residential buildings and 1,755 homes on Rector Place, with 0 walk-ups and 0 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 219 homes each.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Rector Place have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 95 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 86. Rector Place sits in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 94 and parking at 94. Against every street in the city, Rector Place ranks 89 on food nearby and 64 on tree cover. Rector Place ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Rector Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rector Place is traffic safety, at 100.
The housing file records no rent-stabilized home among the 1,755 on Rector Place.
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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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Rector Place runs through Financial District, 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).