W 27 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 27 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 31, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 27 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and food nearby (97). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 27 Street, with 87 reports, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. Across every category, 365 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to encampment (82 reports) and commercial noise (72). Reports on West 27 Street span 65 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 286 homes on file, that is about 128 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on West 27 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. 23 residential buildings on West 27 Street hold the 286 homes on file, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 62, with quietness at 15. A 15 on quietness places West 27 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 56 and traffic safety at 20 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 95 and tree cover 50, 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 27 Street, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 27 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
About 19% of the 286 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 54 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 27 Street runs through Midtown South and Chelsea, 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).