W 45 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does W 45 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 64, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 45 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (100). Quietness (47) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 45 Street name encampment than any other category, 482 of them. Encampment accounts for 62% of the 782 reports on file here. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 248 reports, and illegal parking with 101. Reports on West 45 Street span 91 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 45 Street carries roughly 34 reports per 100 of them.
West 45 Street carries 22 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. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 45 Street, 22 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 20 violations, then bed bugs at 19. 53 residential buildings on West 45 Street hold the 2,313 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 45 Street holds about 44 homes.
NYPD records 70 people injured in crashes on West 45 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 45 Street ranks 86 on parking and 51 on traffic safety. That 51 on traffic safety puts West 45 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 75 and housing at 74 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 45 Street ranks 96 on transit and 64 on tree cover. West 45 Street ranks 100 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
About 59% of the 2,313 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,371 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 45 Street runs through Midtown and Hell's Kitchen, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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