W 4 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 4 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 4 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (99). Cleanliness (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 4 Street name encampment than any other category, 71 of them, and cleanliness ranks 33 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 4 Street holds 354 reports, and encampment is 20% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 52 reports, and commercial noise with 48. Reports on West 4 Street span 67 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 32 reports for every 100 homes on West 4 Street.
The HPD file on West 4 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 4 Street, 23 violations of it. Pests accounts for 18 more. The housing file lists 91 residential buildings on West 4 Street holding 1,108 homes, with 40 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 4 Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 94 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 60. That 60 on quietness puts West 4 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 84 and housing at 84. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 99 and tree cover at 66. West 4 Street ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 4 Street is parking, at 95.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 1,108 homes on file, 155 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 4 Street runs through West Village and Greenwich Village, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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