W 40 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does W 40 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 46, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 40 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (80) and food nearby (99). Street crime (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 40 Street name panhandling than any other category, 129 of them. Across every category, 392 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 33% of them name panhandling. Illegal parking follows with 60 reports, and encampment with 43. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 40 Street. About 59 reports per 100 homes sit on West 40 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 28 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on West 40 Street, 14 violations of it. City housing records put 668 homes in 13 residential buildings on West 40 Street, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 40 Street holds about 51 homes.
Reported crashes on West 40 Street have injured 71 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 79, with traffic safety at 18. That 18 on traffic safety puts West 40 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 76 and quietness at 42 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 40 Street ranks 97 on transit and 45 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where West 40 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.
1% of the 668 homes recorded on West 40 Street are rent-stabilized, 7 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 40 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).