W 31 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 31 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 31 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (81) and food nearby (100). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vendor enforcement leads the 311 file on West 31 Street, with 659 reports, and cleanliness ranks 13 among numbered streets. After that the file runs to homeless person assistance (110 reports) and obstruction (91). The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 634 homes on file, that is about 58 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 15 Class C violations on West 31 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 4 residential buildings on West 31 Street holding 634 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 159 homes each.
NYPD records 64 people injured in crashes on West 31 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 31 Street ranks 67 on parking and 14 on traffic safety. That 14 on traffic safety puts West 31 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 57 and infrastructure at 45 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 20, 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 31 Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 31 Street is housing, at 81.
71% of the 634 homes recorded on West 31 Street are rent-stabilized, 448 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 31 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).