W 59 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does W 59 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against numbered streets. Access 74, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 59 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (97) and food nearby (88). Tree cover (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
Drug activity leads the 311 file on West 59 Street, with 175 reports. The whole 311 file on West 59 Street holds 465 reports, and drug activity is 38% of it. After that the file runs to encampment (149 reports) and illegal parking (89). The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 59 Street carries roughly 26 reports per 100 of them.
West 59 Street carries 2 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 5 residential buildings on West 59 Street hold the 1,810 homes on file, 0 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 362 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 59 Street have injured 30 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 59 Street ranks 95 on infrastructure and 53 on quietness. A 53 on quietness places West 59 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 82 and parking at 66 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 59 Street ranks 75 on transit and 48 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 59 Street, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 59 Street is housing, at 97.
The housing file puts 4% of the 1,810 homes on West 59 Street in rent stabilization, 74 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 59 Street runs through Upper West Side, 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).