W 34 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does W 34 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 94, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 34 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (94) and food nearby (100). Traffic safety (12) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 34 Street. 178 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 12 among numbered streets. Encampment is the most-filed complaint on West 34 Street, with 72 reports. Across every category, 421 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name encampment. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 66 reports, then homeless person assistance at 62. In all, 63 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 34 Street. The 311 file works out to about 25 reports for every 100 homes on West 34 Street.
The HPD file on West 34 Street carries 14 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. City housing records put 1,659 homes in 7 residential buildings on West 34 Street, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 237 homes each.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 90, with cleanliness at 68. That 68 on cleanliness puts West 34 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 73 and infrastructure at 72. The citywide frame puts transit at 99 and tree cover at 70. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 34 Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 1,659 homes on file, 254 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 34 Street runs through Chelsea, Midtown and Midtown South, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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