William Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does William Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 78, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 80, 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 William Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (90) and transit (99). Tree cover (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on William Street, with 107 reports. The whole 311 file on William Street holds 239 reports, and illegal parking is 45% of it. Vendor enforcement is the next most-filed at 80 reports, then sidewalk condition at 25. Reports on William Street span 59 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on William Street.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 9 residential buildings on William Street holding 936 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 104 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 84 among built-up residential streets and infrastructure ranks 41. William Street sits in the weaker half of built-up residential streets on infrastructure. Cleanliness ranks 82 on the same scale, with parking at 62. Food nearby ranks 99 and tree cover 2, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
Traffic safety is where William Street ranks best against built-up residential streets, at 90.
Of the 936 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.
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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William Street runs through Financial District, 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).