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 37, 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 (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement is the most-filed complaint on Broadway, with 5,419 reports. Across every category, 18,505 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name vendor enforcement. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 3,065 reports, and heat and hot water with 2,982. In all, 142 distinct 311 categories are represented on Broadway. Set against the 26,342 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Broadway carries 1,710 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Broadway is paint and lead, at 1,108 violations. Pests follows at 1,049 violations, then doors at 583. PLUTO counts 454 residential buildings and 26,342 homes on Broadway, with 79 walk-ups and 252 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 58 homes each.
Since 2021, 1,074 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among major corridors, Broadway ranks 45 on infrastructure and 18 on housing. Broadway sits in the weakest quarter of major corridors on housing. Measured against major corridors, parking sits at 44 and cleanliness at 35. The citywide frame puts transit at 98 and food nearby at 95. Of the three measures ranked citywide, tree cover is the strongest on Broadway, at 100. Broadway is ranked against about 190 major corridors citywide.
Traffic safety is where Broadway ranks best against major corridors, at 58.
Rent stabilization covers about 32% of the 26,342 homes on file, 8,134 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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Broadway runs through Upper West Side, Washington Heights and Morningside Heights, 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).