Sullivan Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 74 out of 100. How does Sullivan Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 74 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 92, 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 Sullivan Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and food nearby (99). Street crime (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on Sullivan Street, with 55 reports. Across every category, 445 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (49 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (43). In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on Sullivan Street. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on Sullivan Street.
Inspectors have written 31 Class C violations on Sullivan Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Sullivan Street is bed bugs, at 22 violations. Pests accounts for 18 more, and doors for 16. City housing records put 1,390 homes in 87 residential buildings on Sullivan Street, 52 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Sullivan Street holds about 16 homes.
Among built-up residential streets, Sullivan Street ranks 85 on parking and 46 on quietness. That 46 on quietness puts Sullivan Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 67 and infrastructure at 62. Against every street in the city, Sullivan Street ranks 98 on transit and 66 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. Sullivan Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
The housing file puts 24% of the 1,390 homes on Sullivan Street in rent stabilization, 339 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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Sullivan Street runs through SoHo and Greenwich Village, 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).