Broadway, Manhattan NYC — The Great White Way | 2026

Broadway runs the length of Manhattan: Times Square theaters to residential Inwood. Block-by-block safety, noise, and quality scores.

Livability score

Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.

Calm 36, ranked against major corridors. Access 98, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most major corridors, but a lot within a walk.

That puts Broadway in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on traffic safety (58) and tree cover (100); quietness (16) is the weak spot.

On the record

Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on Broadway, with 5,419 reports. HPD has cited 1,713 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. On the other side, traffic safety ranks 58 among major corridors. About 32% of the 26,342 homes on file are rent-stabilized.

Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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.

View the full interactive report with street-level data on BestageStreet NYC, covering safety, noise, and cleanliness scores for 5,700+ NYC streets from 5M+ 311 reports.