W 44 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does W 44 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 44 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (86) and food nearby (99). Street crime (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 44 Street, with 269 reports. Across every category, 845 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to homeless person assistance (86 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (66). The file runs across 77 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 44 Street carries roughly 65 reports per 100 of them.
West 44 Street carries 13 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 27 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (25 violations) and paint and lead (18). The housing file lists 61 residential buildings on West 44 Street holding 1,300 homes, with 29 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 44 Street have injured 58 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 79, with parking at 40. That 40 on parking puts West 44 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 71 and traffic safety at 46 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 96 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 44 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where West 44 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
The housing file puts 44% of the 1,300 homes on West 44 Street in rent stabilization, 558 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 44 Street runs through Hell's Kitchen and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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