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This Neighborhood Has Had the Most Noise and Filth Complaints Since 2015

 A pile of garbage near the corner of Essex and Grand streets.
A pile of garbage near the corner of Essex and Grand streets.
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DNAinfo/Allegra Hobbs

If 311 complaints are anything to go by, the East Village is both the loudest and dirtiest neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, according to a new study from apartment rental website RentHop.

Seventy five noise complaints have been logged for every 1,000 East Village residents since the beginning of 2015. That adds up to nearly 5,000 total noise complaints, according to RentHop's analysis of NYC's Open Data.

The majority of those complaints were related to noise from surrounding businesses, the study shows.

Rat sightings and piled-up garbage ranked highly in the neighborhood as well. Five hundred seventy two rodent-related complaints and 680.3 garbage-related complaints have been logged per square mile since the beginning of 2015.

The numbers place the East Village above runner-up Chinatown by a wide margin in all three categories: the neighborhood has 28.5 percent more garbage complaints, 39.9 percent more rodent sittings, and 36.7 percent more noise complaints than Chinatown, the study found. 

Meanwhile, the study found the Lower East Side to be the quietest neighborhood, while Battery Park was found to be the cleanest by a wide margin.

The study breaks down Lower Manhattan into six neighborhoods, which rank as follows:

► East Village: 680.3 garbage complaints and 572.9 rodent complaints per square mile, 75.5 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

► Chinatown: 486.5 garbage complaints and 344.2 rodent complaints per square mile, 47.8 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

► SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy: 216.4 garbage complaints and 407.0 rodent complaints per square mile, 56.1 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

► West Village: 259.8 garbage complaints and 283.2 rodent complaints per square mile, 50.2 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

► Lower East Side: 269.1 garbage complaints and 330.1 rodent complaints per square mile, 26.1 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

► Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan: 84.9 garbage complaints and 136.2 rodent complaints per square mile, 34.4 noise complaints per 1,000 residents

See how the neighborhoods’ filth and noise pollution stack against each other with the interactive map below: