Rutgers Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does Rutgers Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Rutgers Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (98). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Rutgers Street name encampment than any other category, 143 of them. Encampment accounts for 80% of the 178 reports on file here. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 100 reports, then noise at 10. In all, 53 distinct 311 categories are represented on Rutgers Street. Set against the 198 homes on file, that is about 90 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Rutgers Street carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. 11 residential buildings on Rutgers Street hold the 198 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 18 homes to a building.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on Rutgers Street since 2021.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 67, with traffic safety at 23. A 23 on traffic safety places Rutgers Street in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts housing at 30 and cleanliness at 25 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Rutgers Street ranks 96 on food nearby and 29 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Rutgers Street, at 98. About 1,970 quiet residential streets make up the band Rutgers Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Rutgers Street is parking, at 95.
The housing file puts 36% of the 198 homes on Rutgers Street in rent stabilization, 72 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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Rutgers Street runs through Chinatown, 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).