Sickles Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 64 out of 100. How does Sickles Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 64 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 77, 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 Sickles Street in the top 15% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and food nearby (88). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on Sickles Street, with 626 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (73 reports) and vehicle noise (44). The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 521 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
Sickles Street carries 44 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Sickles Street is pests, at 38 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 27 more, and doors for 20. The housing file lists 6 residential buildings on Sickles Street holding 521 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 87 homes each.
NYPD records no injury from a reported crash on Sickles Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 95, with housing at 26. That 26 on housing puts Sickles Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Parking ranks 77 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 66. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Sickles Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Sickles Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 89% of the 521 homes on file, 464 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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Sickles Street runs through Washington Heights, 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).