Walker Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does Walker Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 32, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 98, 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 Walker Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (60) and transit (99). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on Walker Street, with 24 reports. The whole 311 file on Walker Street holds 176 reports, and vendor enforcement is 14% of it. Water system follows with 15 reports, and illegal parking with 12. Reports on Walker Street span 37 distinct 311 categories. About 87 reports per 100 homes sit on Walker Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 3 Class C violations on Walker Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 23 residential buildings on Walker Street holding 203 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 8.8 homes each.
NYPD records 9 people injured in crashes on Walker Street since 2021.
Among built-up residential streets, Walker Street ranks 49 on parking and 8 on cleanliness. That 8 on cleanliness puts Walker Street in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. Quietness ranks 47 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 29. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 96 and tree cover at 0. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Walker Street, at 99. Walker Street is ranked against about 790 built-up residential streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Walker Street is housing, at 60.
The housing file puts 4% of the 203 homes on Walker Street in rent stabilization, 8 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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Walker Street runs through Tribeca and Chinatown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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