W 57 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does W 57 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 80, 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 57 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (97). Traffic safety (64) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 57 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 136 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 64 among numbered streets. Homeless person assistance is the most-filed complaint on West 57 Street, with 241 reports. Across every category, 1,143 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name homeless person assistance. Illegal parking follows with 160 reports, and residential noise with 128. Reports on West 57 Street span 98 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 5,947 homes on file, that is about 19 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 57 Street carries 77 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 57 Street is pests, at 23 violations. Paint and lead follows at 23 violations, then doors at 21. PLUTO counts 49 residential buildings and 5,947 homes on West 57 Street, with 14 walk-ups and 17 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 121 homes each.
Among numbered streets, West 57 Street ranks 96 on parking and 66 on cleanliness. That 66 on cleanliness puts West 57 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 84 on the same scale, with housing at 82. The citywide frame puts transit at 96 and tree cover at 78. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 57 Street, at 97. West 57 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where West 57 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 98.
About 23% of the 5,947 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 1,363 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 57 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).