Suffolk Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does Suffolk Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 23, 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 Suffolk Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and food nearby (99). Parking (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on Suffolk Street, with 333 reports, and parking ranks 2 among built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Suffolk Street holds 535 reports, and illegal parking is 62% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (83 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (42). In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on Suffolk Street. Divided by the homes on file, Suffolk Street carries roughly 144 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 13 Class C violations on Suffolk Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. PLUTO counts 22 residential buildings and 371 homes on Suffolk Street, with 19 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on Suffolk Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Suffolk Street ranks 47 on housing and 3 on cleanliness. Suffolk Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Measured against built-up residential streets, traffic safety sits at 28 and quietness at 7. The citywide frame puts transit at 94 and tree cover at 50. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Suffolk Street, at 99. Suffolk Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where Suffolk Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 18% of the 371 homes on file, 67 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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Suffolk 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).