W 17 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does W 17 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 17 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and food nearby (95). Street crime (41) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 17 Street name residential noise than any other category, 104 of them. Across every category, 568 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 35 reports, then illegal parking at 31. Reports on West 17 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 35 reports for every 100 homes on West 17 Street.
Inspectors have written 44 Class C violations on West 17 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Structure is what HPD writes up most on West 17 Street, 30 violations of it. Doors accounts for 27 more, and paint and lead for 23. PLUTO counts 74 residential buildings and 1,636 homes on West 17 Street, with 29 walk-ups and 14 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 17 Street holds about 22 homes.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with quietness at 47. A 47 on quietness places West 17 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 67 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 55. Transit ranks 87 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 17 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 17 Street is parking, at 96.
About 30% of the 1,636 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 487 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 17 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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