W 61 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 61 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 81, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 61 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (98) and transit (89). Tree cover (60) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 61 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 101 of them. The whole 311 file on West 61 Street holds 215 reports, and illegal parking is 47% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (42 reports) and school maintenance (14). Reports on West 61 Street span 45 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 17 reports for every 100 homes on West 61 Street.
HPD has cited no Class C violation on West 61 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. The housing file lists 5 residential buildings on West 61 Street holding 1,229 homes, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 246 homes to a building.
NYPD records 23 people injured in crashes on West 61 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 95 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 66. That 66 on quietness puts West 61 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 86 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 71. Food nearby ranks 88 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 61 Street ranks 89 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 61 Street is housing, at 98.
53% of the 1,229 homes recorded on West 61 Street are rent-stabilized, 646 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 61 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).