Street James Place, Manhattan: Grade C · 311 & City Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does Street James Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 22, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Street James Place in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and transit (95). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Street James Place, with 41 reports. Across every category, 80 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 51% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 22 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 13. In all, 25 distinct 311 categories are represented on Street James Place. Divided by the homes on file, Street James Place carries roughly 182 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on Street James Place, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. 3 residential buildings on Street James Place hold the 44 homes on file, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Street James Place holds about 15 homes.
Since 2021, 9 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against quiet residential streets, infrastructure comes in at 68, with traffic safety at 3. That 3 on traffic safety puts Street James Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. The card also puts parking at 18 and quietness at 3 among quiet residential streets. Against every street in the city, Street James Place ranks 91 on food nearby and 31 on tree cover. Street James Place ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Housing is where Street James Place ranks best against quiet residential streets, at 90.
Rent stabilization covers about 64% of the 44 homes on file, 28 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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Street James Place runs through Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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