W 46 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does W 46 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 95, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 46 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (80) and food nearby (100). Traffic safety (44) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against West 46 Street. 85 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 44 among numbered streets. Homeless person assistance draws more reports than anything else here, 320 of them. Across every category, 1,016 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 31% of them name homeless person assistance. After that the file runs to encampment (231 reports) and illegal parking (207). The file runs across 84 distinct 311 categories in all. About 69 reports per 100 homes sit on West 46 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 74 Class C violations on West 46 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 46 Street is pests, at 82 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 60 more, and doors for 58. PLUTO counts 101 residential buildings and 1,471 homes on West 46 Street, with 54 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 15 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 75 among numbered streets and housing ranks 56. A 56 on housing places West 46 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 71 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 56. Transit ranks 98 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 46 Street, at 100. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 46 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 80.
About 17% of the 1,471 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 264 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 46 Street runs through Midtown and Hell's Kitchen, 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).