W 16 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 16 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 16 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (92) and transit (98). Cleanliness (47) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 16 Street, with 133 reports, and cleanliness ranks 47 among numbered streets. Across every category, 462 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition is the next most-filed at 120 reports, then encampment at 117. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 16 Street. About 23 reports per 100 homes sit on West 16 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 51 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 16 Street is doors, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (40 violations) and bed bugs (30). 86 residential buildings on West 16 Street hold the 2,032 homes on file, 52 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 16 Street holds about 24 homes.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on West 16 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with infrastructure at 68. West 16 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 76 and housing at 75. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 16 Street, at 98. West 16 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 16 Street is parking, at 92.
About 18% of the 2,032 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 377 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 16 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, 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).