How to look up noise complaints for an NYC address

Every 311 noise complaint in New York City is public, with its address, type and time: 789,000 of them from October 2025 to October 2026.

Updated 2026-10-21

Where the complaints are

311 takes noise complaints by phone, app and website, sends each to the agency that handles it, and publishes every one in the 311 Service Requests dataset on NYC Open Data, updated daily. Each record has the address, the type, what the caller described and the time.

How to look them up

1. On a StreetEasy listing, with Pigeon. The Noise score counts the block’s 311 noise complaints from the past year, by type and by hour, against the other blocks in the ZIP code, and links to the reports.
2. On NYC Open Data. Open 311 Service Requests and filter Incident Address for the building and Complaint Type for the ones that begin with “Noise”. 311 spells addresses out in capitals: 255 West 75th Street is 255 WEST 75 STREET.
3. For the block. Filter by the street name and the ZIP code instead, and look at the house numbers on either side. Street noise is reported where it happens, often next door.

What the complaint types mean

The NYPD handles all of them but two: the Department of Environmental Protection takes the plain “Noise” type, and the Economic Development Corporation takes helicopters. The counts are from October 2025 to October 2026.

In the data each type but the plain one is written “Noise - Residential”, “Noise - Vehicle” and so on.

How to read them

• Look at the hours. Complaints between 10pm and 4am mean bars, parties or a loud neighbor at night. Daytime construction complaints end when the job does.
• Look at the type. Residential complaints are about a neighbor; street, commercial and vehicle complaints are about the block, and reach the front of the building most.
• Look for repeats. Dozens of residential complaints from one building about the same thing can be one neighbor calling often, which says more about that dispute than the block.
• Compare with nearby blocks. Complaints count people who call, not decibels, and some neighborhoods call more than others.

Before you sign

• Visit on a Friday or Saturday night, and stand in the bedroom with the window closed.
• Ask which side the apartment faces: the street, the back or an airshaft.
• Look for a bar, a club, a bus stop or a firehouse on the block.
• Ask about the windows. Double-glazed windows cut street noise more than anything else in your control.

What Pigeon shows

Pigeon’s Noise score counts the block’s 311 noise complaints from the past year against the residential blocks in the same ZIP code, and takes a point off when most come between 10pm and 4am. It shows them by type and by hour of the day, and links to the block’s reports.