Washington Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311 & City Data
Grade A, 83 out of 100. How does Washington Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 83 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 Washington Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and transit (96). Quietness (67) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Washington Street name illegal parking than any other category, 146 of them. Across every category, 571 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 78 reports, and heat and hot water with 78. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on Washington Street. Divided by the homes on file, Washington Street carries roughly 20 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 12 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Washington Street is pests, at 12 violations. 67 residential buildings on Washington Street hold the 2,797 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 13 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 42 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 21 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 82 among built-up residential streets and traffic safety ranks 73. Washington Street sits in the stronger half of built-up residential streets on traffic safety. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 81 and infrastructure at 78. Food nearby ranks 95 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on Washington Street, at 96. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Washington Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is where Washington Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 87.
About 6% of the 2,797 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 159 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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Washington Street runs through West Village, Financial District and Tribeca, 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).