W 13 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does W 13 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 13 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and transit (99). Quietness (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
Commercial noise is the most-filed complaint on West 13 Street, with 624 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 13 Street holds 735 reports, and commercial noise is 85% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (60 reports) and for hire vehicle complaint (55). In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 13 Street. Set against the 1,039 homes on file, that is about 71 reports per 100 homes.
West 13 Street carries 11 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 20 violations on file. Pests follows at 19 violations. City housing records put 1,039 homes in 79 residential buildings on West 13 Street, 27 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Since 2021, 33 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 13 Street ranks 78 on housing and 33 on infrastructure. That 33 on infrastructure puts West 13 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 60 and cleanliness at 36. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 97 and tree cover at 72. West 13 Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
The housing file puts 21% of the 1,039 homes on West 13 Street in rent stabilization, 225 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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W 13 Street runs through West Village and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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