W 21 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does W 21 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 67, 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 21 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and transit (97). Cleanliness (22) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 21 Street, with 113 reports, and cleanliness ranks 22 among numbered streets. Across every category, 689 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to dirty condition (109 reports) and general construction and plumbing (75). The file runs across 78 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,419 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
West 21 Street carries 28 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 21 Street is pests, at 32 violations. Bed bugs follows at 26 violations, then structure at 20. PLUTO counts 130 residential buildings and 2,419 homes on West 21 Street, with 70 walk-ups and 17 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Since 2021, 30 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 88 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 51. West 21 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 86 and housing at 70 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 21 Street ranks 97 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 21 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 21 Street is parking, at 94.
27% of the 2,419 homes recorded on West 21 Street are rent-stabilized, 653 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 21 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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