W 52 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does W 52 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 52 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (88) and food nearby (98). Quietness (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 52 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 201 of them. Across every category, 935 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (143 reports) and illegal parking (138). Reports on West 52 Street span 86 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 52 Street carries roughly 43 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 89 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on West 52 Street, 86 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (43 violations) and paint and lead (28). The housing file lists 41 residential buildings on West 52 Street holding 2,184 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 53 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 57 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 52 Street ranks 84 on cleanliness and 56 on housing. West 52 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Parking ranks 76 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 62. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 69. West 52 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 52 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 2,184 homes on file, 421 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 52 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).