South Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 50 out of 100. How does South Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 50 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 88, 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 South Street in the bottom 49% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (91) and transit (95). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Divided by the homes on file, South Street carries roughly 72 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on South Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 594 homes in 9 residential buildings on South Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on South Street holds about 66 homes.
Since 2021, 44 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 44 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 12. South Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 32 and cleanliness at 21 among built-up residential streets. Against every street in the city, South Street ranks 94 on food nearby and 61 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on South Street, at 95. South Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Housing is where South Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 91.
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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South Street runs through Financial District and 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).