W 15 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 15 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 94, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 15 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (99) and transit (97). Street crime (37) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 15 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 71 of them. Across every category, 442 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking follows with 67 reports, and residential noise with 63. In all, 75 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 15 Street. The 311 file works out to about 28 reports for every 100 homes on West 15 Street.
Inspectors have written 52 Class C violations on West 15 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 15 Street, 30 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (27 violations) and heat and hot water (20). City housing records put 1,586 homes in 97 residential buildings on West 15 Street, 63 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 30 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 87 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 51. A 51 on infrastructure places West 15 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 74 and housing at 64. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 97 and tree cover at 81. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 15 Street, at 97. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 99.
About 17% of the 1,586 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 273 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 15 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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