W 62 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 80 out of 100. How does W 62 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 80 out of 100.
Calm 78, 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 62 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (100) and transit (97). Tree cover (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 62 Street, with 30 reports. Across every category, 173 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 24 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 18. Reports on West 62 Street span 33 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 883 homes on file, that is about 20 reports per 100 homes.
No Class C violation, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, sits on West 62 Street. PLUTO counts 4 residential buildings and 883 homes on West 62 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 62 Street holds about 221 homes.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 92 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 49. West 62 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts cleanliness at 88 and traffic safety at 59 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 62 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 62 Street is housing, at 100.
Rent stabilization covers about 39% of the 883 homes on file, 341 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 62 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).