W 55 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 55 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 60, 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 55 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (83) and food nearby (96). Quietness (29) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 55 Street name encampment than any other category, 253 of them. Encampment accounts for 20% of the 1,291 reports on file here. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 179 reports, then residential noise at 152. In all, 93 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 55 Street. Set against the 2,332 homes on file, that is about 55 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on West 55 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 55 Street is pests, at 65 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 44 more, and doors for 19. PLUTO counts 52 residential buildings and 2,332 homes on West 55 Street, with 19 walk-ups and 27 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 45 homes to a building.
NYPD records 74 people injured in crashes on West 55 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 73, with traffic safety at 52. West 55 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts infrastructure at 70 and housing at 58 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 55 Street ranks 94 on transit and 76 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 55 Street, at 96. West 55 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is where West 55 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 77.
Rent stabilization covers about 23% of the 2,332 homes on file, 544 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 55 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).