W 49 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 49 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 49 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (59) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Noise is the most-filed complaint on West 49 Street, with 204 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,056 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 203 reports, then heat and hot water at 140. In all, 85 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 49 Street. Set against the 1,155 homes on file, that is about 91 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 150 Class C violations on West 49 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 49 Street is pests, at 127 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 120 more, and doors for 78. City housing records put 1,155 homes in 63 residential buildings on West 49 Street, 52 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 49 Street holds about 18 homes.
NYPD records 69 people injured in crashes on West 49 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 49 Street ranks 51 on parking and 25 on quietness. That 25 on quietness puts West 49 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 27 on the same scale, with housing at 26. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 76. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 49 Street, at 99. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 49 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 59.
Rent stabilization covers about 47% of the 1,155 homes on file, 487 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 49 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).