W 18 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 18 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 18 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (91) and food nearby (96). Quietness (57) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 18 Street name encampment than any other category, 339 of them. The whole 311 file on West 18 Street holds 528 reports, and encampment is 64% of it. Illegal parking follows with 71 reports, and residential noise with 56. In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 18 Street. The 311 file works out to about 34 reports for every 100 homes on West 18 Street.
Inspectors have written 8 Class C violations on West 18 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 18 Street, 14 violations of it. Pests accounts for 11 more. 66 residential buildings on West 18 Street hold the 1,550 homes on file, 18 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
NYPD records 17 people injured in crashes on West 18 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 18 Street ranks 86 on housing and 71 on cleanliness. West 18 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts infrastructure at 81 and parking at 79 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 18 Street, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
18% of the 1,550 homes recorded on West 18 Street are rent-stabilized, 274 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 18 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).