W 28 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does W 28 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 28 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (98). Quietness (55) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 28 Street, with 148 reports. The whole 311 file on West 28 Street holds 597 reports, and illegal parking is 25% of it. After that the file runs to encampment (103 reports) and residential noise (100). The file runs across 85 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,155 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
West 28 Street carries 57 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 34 violations on file. Structure follows at 25 violations, then pests at 22. City housing records put 2,155 homes in 27 residential buildings on West 28 Street, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 80 homes each.
Since 2021, 48 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 82 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 68. A 68 on traffic safety places West 28 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 75 on the same scale, with housing at 75. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 66, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
The housing file puts 80% of the 2,155 homes on West 28 Street in rent stabilization, 1,718 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 28 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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