Rivington Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311 & City Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does Rivington Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 33, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 Rivington Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and food nearby (100). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Rivington Street, with 424 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Across every category, 1,035 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to illegal fireworks (164 reports) and graffiti (124). In all, 64 distinct 311 categories are represented on Rivington Street. Set against the 1,036 homes on file, that is about 100 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 45 Class C violations on Rivington Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Rivington Street is pests, at 26 violations. Bed bugs follows at 20 violations, then paint and lead at 15. 73 residential buildings on Rivington Street hold the 1,036 homes on file, 43 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Rivington Street ranks 52 on housing and 21 on quietness. That 21 on quietness puts Rivington Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 34 and parking at 27 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 44, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Rivington Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rivington Street is infrastructure, at 87.
23% of the 1,036 homes recorded on Rivington Street are rent-stabilized, 241 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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Rivington Street runs through Lower East Side, 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).