W 53 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 53 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 77, 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 53 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and food nearby (98). Traffic safety (55) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against West 53 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on West 53 Street have injured 65 people, and traffic safety ranks 55 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 222 of them. The whole 311 file on West 53 Street holds 590 reports, and illegal parking is 38% of it. Vehicle noise follows with 65 reports, and heat and hot water with 63. The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,518 homes on file, that is about 23 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 53 Street carries 79 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on West 53 Street, 53 violations of it. Pests follows at 28 violations, then doors at 21. City housing records put 2,518 homes in 32 residential buildings on West 53 Street, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 53 Street holds about 79 homes.
Among numbered streets, West 53 Street ranks 85 on quietness and 71 on housing. West 53 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 82 and parking at 75. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 72. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 98. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 53 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where West 53 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
23% of the 2,518 homes recorded on West 53 Street are rent-stabilized, 590 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 53 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).