W 43 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does W 43 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 44, 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 43 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (68) and food nearby (99). Street crime (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 43 Street, with 195 reports. Across every category, 955 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 115 reports, and homeless person assistance with 77. The file runs across 90 distinct 311 categories in all. About 56 reports per 100 homes sit on West 43 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 35 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 43 Street, 23 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (19 violations) and paint and lead (12). PLUTO counts 41 residential buildings and 1,700 homes on West 43 Street, with 23 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 43 Street holds about 41 homes.
Since 2021, 77 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 63, with quietness at 32. That 32 on quietness puts West 43 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 60 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 35. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 66. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 43 Street, at 99. West 43 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 43 Street is parking, at 68.
About 33% of the 1,700 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 569 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 43 Street runs through Hell's Kitchen and Midtown, 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).