W 20 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does W 20 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 20 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (89) and food nearby (97). Quietness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Non-emergency police matter is the most-filed complaint on West 20 Street, with 633 reports. The whole 311 file on West 20 Street holds 833 reports, and non-emergency police matter is 76% of it. Residential noise follows with 173 reports, and commercial noise with 130. Reports on West 20 Street span 74 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,582 homes on file, that is about 53 reports per 100 homes.
West 20 Street carries 64 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 36 violations on file. Pests accounts for 32 more. 132 residential buildings on West 20 Street hold the 1,582 homes on file, 68 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 20 Street holds about 12 homes.
Since 2021, 25 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 82, with cleanliness at 32. A 32 on cleanliness places West 20 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 58 and infrastructure at 57 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 20 Street ranks 96 on transit and 73 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. West 20 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 89.
The housing file puts 25% of the 1,582 homes on West 20 Street in rent stabilization, 400 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 20 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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