W 56 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 56 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 71, 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 56 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (95) and food nearby (96). Quietness (53) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 56 Street, with 128 reports, and quietness ranks 53 among numbered streets. Across every category, 679 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 87 reports, and heat and hot water with 73. The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,420 homes on file, that is about 28 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 40 Class C violations here, 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 56 Street is bed bugs, at 18 violations. Behind it the file holds heat and hot water (14 violations) and pests (13). 56 residential buildings on West 56 Street hold the 2,420 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 56 Street holds about 43 homes.
Reported crashes on West 56 Street have injured 75 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 90, with traffic safety at 57. A 57 on traffic safety places West 56 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 83 and housing at 76. The citywide frame puts transit at 94 and tree cover at 77. West 56 Street ranks 96 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file puts 17% of the 2,420 homes on West 56 Street in rent stabilization, 420 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 56 Street runs through Hell's Kitchen and Midtown, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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