W 36 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does W 36 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 36 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (61) and food nearby (100). Street crime (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on West 36 Street, with 362 reports. The whole 311 file on West 36 Street holds 560 reports, and encampment is 65% of it. After that the file runs to noise (107 reports) and homeless person assistance (107). In all, 80 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 36 Street. Set against the 748 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on West 36 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 36 Street is paint and lead, at 33 violations. Pests follows at 30 violations, then doors at 21. City housing records put 748 homes in 27 residential buildings on West 36 Street, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 36 Street holds about 28 homes.
NYPD records 66 people injured in crashes on West 36 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 36 Street ranks 59 on infrastructure and 17 on traffic safety. That 17 on traffic safety puts West 36 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 52 on the same scale, with housing at 44. Against every street in the city, West 36 Street ranks 98 on transit and 57 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 36 Street, at 100. West 36 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 36 Street is parking, at 61.
The housing file puts 18% of the 748 homes on West 36 Street in rent stabilization, 135 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 36 Street runs through Midtown and Chelsea, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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