W 29 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 29 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 29 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (59) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against West 29 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on West 29 Street have injured 64 people, and traffic safety ranks 20 among numbered streets. The 311 file on West 29 Street is led by encampment, with 266 reports. Encampment accounts for 39% of the 674 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 189 reports, then homeless person assistance at 42. In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 29 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 29 Street carries roughly 72 reports per 100 of them.
West 29 Street carries 31 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. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 29 Street, 24 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (24 violations) and bed bugs (17). PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 938 homes on West 29 Street, with 24 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 29 Street holds about 20 homes.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 54, with cleanliness at 35. West 29 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 40 and quietness at 38. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 29 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
Rent stabilization covers about 39% of the 938 homes on file, 366 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 29 Street runs through Chelsea and Midtown South, 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).