W 51 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 51 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 51 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (80) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on West 51 Street, with 115 reports, and cleanliness ranks 10 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,073 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 11% of them name encampment. Heat and hot water follows with 115 reports, and residential noise with 86. The file runs across 86 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,276 homes on file, that is about 84 reports per 100 homes.
West 51 Street carries 67 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 51 Street, 38 violations of it. Doors follows at 34 violations, then paint and lead at 34. The housing file lists 58 residential buildings on West 51 Street holding 1,276 homes, with 31 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 22 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 51 Street have injured 74 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 44 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 27. That 27 on quietness puts West 51 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 40 and traffic safety at 29 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 51 Street ranks 89 on transit and 79 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 51 Street, at 98. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 51 Street is parking, at 80.
About 36% of the 1,276 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 465 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 51 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).