University Place, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does University Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 87, 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 University Place in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and transit (97). Tree cover (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on University Place name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 46 of them. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 21% of the 219 reports on file here. Encampment is the next most-filed at 36 reports, then homeless person assistance at 35. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on University Place. Divided by the homes on file, University Place carries roughly 19 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 8 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on University Place, 31 violations of it. The housing file lists 18 residential buildings on University Place holding 1,172 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 65 homes each.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 87, with quietness at 75. A 75 on quietness places University Place in the strongest quarter of built-up residential streets. Traffic safety ranks 82 on the same scale, with housing at 78. Against every street in the city, University Place ranks 97 on food nearby and 48 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on University Place, at 97. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band University Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on University Place is parking, at 89.
13% of the 1,172 homes recorded on University Place are rent-stabilized, 154 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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University Place runs through 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).