W 14 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 14 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 14 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and food nearby (97). Street crime (38) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 14 Street name encampment than any other category, 161 of them. The whole 311 file on West 14 Street holds 636 reports, and encampment is 25% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 71 reports, then commercial noise at 62. In all, 83 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 14 Street. Set against the 2,683 homes on file, that is about 24 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 47 Class C violations on West 14 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 14 Street, 53 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 44 violations, then doors at 31. 82 residential buildings on West 14 Street hold the 2,683 homes on file, 35 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 20 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 14 Street holds about 33 homes.
Reported crashes on West 14 Street have injured 41 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 84, with cleanliness at 58. West 14 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 84 and quietness at 71 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 14 Street ranks 96 on transit and 63 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 14 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where West 14 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 24% of the 2,683 homes on file, 645 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 14 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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