W 48 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 48 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 59, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 48 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and food nearby (99). Quietness (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 48 Street, with 148 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 906 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 129 reports, then illegal parking at 109. In all, 84 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 48 Street. The 311 file works out to about 41 reports for every 100 homes on West 48 Street.
West 48 Street carries 80 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 48 Street, 39 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (27 violations) and heat and hot water (26). The housing file lists 76 residential buildings on West 48 Street holding 2,186 homes, with 51 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 29 homes each.
NYPD records 63 people injured in crashes on West 48 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 80 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 54. West 48 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 66 and traffic safety at 60. The citywide frame puts transit at 96 and tree cover at 73. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 85.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 2,186 homes on file, 393 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 48 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).