Wooster Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does Wooster Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 86, 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 Wooster Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and transit (97). Infrastructure (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Obstruction leads the 311 file on Wooster Street, with 47 reports. Across every category, 142 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name obstruction. Residential disposal complaint follows with 38 reports, and residential noise with 28. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on Wooster Street. Set against the 331 homes on file, that is about 43 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Wooster Street holds no Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. Pests is what HPD writes up most on Wooster Street, 10 violations of it. City housing records put 331 homes in 38 residential buildings on Wooster Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 8.7 homes to a building.
Since 2021, reported crashes on Wooster Street have injured no one.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 92 among built-up residential streets and quietness ranks 41. That 41 on quietness puts Wooster Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. The card also puts housing at 85 and cleanliness at 65 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 42, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Wooster Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 790 built-up residential streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Wooster Street is traffic safety, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 331 homes on file, 23 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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Wooster Street runs through SoHo, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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