W 47 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does W 47 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 47 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and food nearby (100). Street crime (33) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 47 Street, with 315 reports. Across every category, 1,326 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Encampment is the next most-filed at 230 reports, then residential noise at 158. In all, 86 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 47 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 47 Street carries roughly 73 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 102 Class C violations on West 47 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 50 violations on file. Behind it the file holds pests (49 violations) and doors (33). 93 residential buildings on West 47 Street hold the 1,809 homes on file, 68 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 47 Street holds about 19 homes.
Since 2021, 53 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 47 Street ranks 55 on traffic safety and 34 on quietness. West 47 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Parking ranks 52 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 41. The citywide frame puts transit at 97 and tree cover at 72. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 47 Street, at 100. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 47 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 47 Street is infrastructure, at 83.
14% of the 1,809 homes recorded on West 47 Street are rent-stabilized, 262 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 47 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).