W 22 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 22 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 69, ranked against numbered streets. Access 95, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 22 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and transit (98). Cleanliness (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on West 22 Street, with 359 reports, and cleanliness ranks 33 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 22 Street holds 735 reports, and encampment is 49% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (189 reports) and dirty condition (108). In all, 81 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 22 Street. The 311 file works out to about 35 reports for every 100 homes on West 22 Street.
The HPD file on West 22 Street carries 17 Class C violations, 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 22 Street is pests, at 40 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (38 violations) and doors (10). City housing records put 2,111 homes in 178 residential buildings on West 22 Street, 88 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 22 Street holds about 12 homes.
Reported crashes on West 22 Street have injured 22 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 22 Street ranks 92 on traffic safety and 50 on quietness. West 22 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 77 and infrastructure at 71. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 96 and tree cover at 86. West 22 Street ranks 98 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 22 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 22 Street is parking, at 94.
The housing file puts 11% of the 2,111 homes on West 22 Street in rent stabilization, 224 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 22 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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