Water Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does Water Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 89, 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 Water Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (91) and transit (96). Quietness (49) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement leads the 311 file on Water Street, with 230 reports. Across every category, 924 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name vendor enforcement. Residential noise follows with 205 reports, and illegal parking with 174. Reports on Water Street span 83 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 4,677 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
Water Street carries 22 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on Water Street, 22 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (14 violations) and structure (11). The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on Water Street holding 4,677 homes, with 4 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 161 homes each.
NYPD records 27 people injured in crashes on Water Street since 2021.
Against built-up residential streets, housing comes in at 86, with traffic safety at 62. A 62 on traffic safety places Water Street in the stronger half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, infrastructure sits at 84 and cleanliness at 79. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 96 and tree cover at 60. Water Street ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
4% of the 4,677 homes recorded on Water Street are rent-stabilized, 126 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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Water Street runs through Financial District, Lower East Side and Chinatown, 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).