W 23 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 84 out of 100. How does W 23 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 84 out of 100.
Calm 79, 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 23 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (89) and transit (96). Cleanliness (52) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 23 Street, with 342 reports, and cleanliness ranks 52 among numbered streets. Across every category, 988 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. Dirty condition is the next most-filed at 280 reports, then residential noise at 160. Reports on West 23 Street span 98 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 23 Street carries roughly 24 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 23 Street carries 30 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 23 Street, 35 violations of it. Structure accounts for 29 more, and bed bugs for 27. City housing records put 4,146 homes in 88 residential buildings on West 23 Street, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 23 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 47 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 23 Street have injured 64 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 83 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 78. That 78 on quietness puts West 23 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 81 and parking at 81. Food nearby ranks 96 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. West 23 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 23 Street is housing, at 89.
The housing file puts 21% of the 4,146 homes on West 23 Street in rent stabilization, 852 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 23 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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