W 38 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does W 38 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 38 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (97) and food nearby (100). Tree cover (44) is the weak spot.
On the record
Obstruction leads the 311 file on West 38 Street, with 229 reports. The whole 311 file on West 38 Street holds 406 reports, and obstruction is 56% of it. Encampment follows with 199 reports, and residential disposal complaint with 132. Reports on West 38 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. About 24 reports per 100 homes sit on West 38 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 1 Class C violations on West 38 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. The housing file lists 14 residential buildings on West 38 Street holding 1,661 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 119 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 38 Street have injured 68 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 38 Street ranks 92 on parking and 45 on traffic safety. That 45 on traffic safety puts West 38 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 82 and quietness at 58. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 44, 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 38 Street, at 100. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Housing is where West 38 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 97.
The housing file puts 71% of the 1,661 homes on West 38 Street in rent stabilization, 1,186 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 38 Street runs through Midtown, Hell's Kitchen 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).