W 50 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 73 out of 100. How does W 50 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 73 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 94, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 50 Street in the top 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (99). Cleanliness (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 50 Street name encampment than any other category, 214 of them, and cleanliness ranks 29 among numbered streets. Across every category, 627 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 34% of them name encampment. Illegal parking follows with 92 reports, and homeless person assistance with 59. In all, 73 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 50 Street. Set against the 2,076 homes on file, that is about 30 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 60 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 50 Street, 34 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 32 more, and doors for 17. PLUTO counts 50 residential buildings and 2,076 homes on West 50 Street, with 36 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 42 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 50 Street have injured 69 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 82, with traffic safety at 48. That 48 on traffic safety puts West 50 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 72 on the same scale, with housing at 60. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. West 50 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 50 Street is infrastructure, at 93.
27% of the 2,076 homes recorded on West 50 Street are rent-stabilized, 553 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 50 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).