Thompson Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does Thompson Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, 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 Thompson Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and food nearby (99). Street crime (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Thompson Street, with 113 reports. Across every category, 672 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name residential noise. Encampment follows with 109 reports, and heat and hot water with 96. In all, 82 distinct 311 categories are represented on Thompson Street. The 311 file works out to about 38 reports for every 100 homes on Thompson Street.
HPD has cited 69 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on Thompson Street, 35 violations of it. Doors follows at 32 violations, then pests at 30. The housing file lists 65 residential buildings on Thompson Street holding 1,774 homes, with 47 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 27 homes each.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Thompson Street ranks 84 on infrastructure and 21 on cleanliness. That 21 on cleanliness puts Thompson Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 83 on the same scale, with quietness at 31. The citywide frame puts transit at 98 and tree cover at 71. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Thompson Street, at 99. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Thompson Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Thompson Street is parking, at 89.
The housing file puts 16% of the 1,774 homes on Thompson Street in rent stabilization, 278 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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Thompson Street runs through SoHo and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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