W 54 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does W 54 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 54 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (83) and food nearby (98). Parking (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 54 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 314 of them, and parking ranks 25 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 38% of the 825 reports on file here. Encampment follows with 75 reports, and vendor enforcement with 75. In all, 78 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 54 Street. The 311 file works out to about 68 reports for every 100 homes on West 54 Street.
The HPD file on West 54 Street carries 17 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 54 Street, 10 violations of it. The housing file lists 35 residential buildings on West 54 Street holding 1,219 homes, with 13 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 35 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 54 Street have injured 52 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 67 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 40. West 54 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 64 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. The citywide frame puts transit at 95 and tree cover at 78. West 54 Street ranks 98 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 54 Street is scored inside.
Housing is where West 54 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 80.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 1,219 homes on file, 183 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- 9 Avenue, Manhattan
- W 52 Street, Manhattan
- 10 Avenue, Manhattan
- W 53 Street, Manhattan
- 8 Avenue, Manhattan
- W 58 Street, Manhattan
W 54 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).