Thayer Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does Thayer Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 82, 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 Thayer Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (87) and food nearby (91). Quietness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Thayer Street, with 155 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of built-up residential streets. The whole 311 file on Thayer Street holds 837 reports, and residential noise is 19% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (150 reports) and heat and hot water (115). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 736 homes on file, that is about 114 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 102 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Thayer Street is paint and lead, at 91 violations. Pests accounts for 66 more, and plumbing for 40. City housing records put 736 homes in 13 residential buildings on Thayer Street, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 57 homes to a building.
Among built-up residential streets, Thayer Street ranks 81 on parking and 9 on housing. Thayer Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 76 and cleanliness at 33 among built-up residential streets. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 61, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Thayer Street ranks 91 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
The housing file puts 79% of the 736 homes on Thayer Street in rent stabilization, 582 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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Thayer 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).