Varick Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does Varick Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 16, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Varick Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (56) and transit (100). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on Varick Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on Varick Street have injured 88 people, and traffic safety ranks 1 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on Varick Street, with 1,208 reports. After that the file runs to illegal parking (71 reports) and homeless person assistance (31). Reports on Varick Street span 57 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, Varick Street carries roughly 180 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on Varick Street carries 6 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. 6 residential buildings on Varick Street hold the 186 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 31 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 51 among built-up residential streets and cleanliness ranks 3. Varick Street sits in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 16 on the same scale, with quietness at 8. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 96 and tree cover at 35. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 100. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Varick Street is scored inside.
Housing is where Varick Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 56.
The housing file puts 19% of the 186 homes on Varick Street in rent stabilization, 36 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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Varick Street runs through SoHo, Tribeca and West 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).