W 65 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does W 65 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 65 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (95) and transit (96). Traffic safety (26) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 65 Street. 41 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 26 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 33 reports. The whole 311 file on West 65 Street holds 138 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Residential noise follows with 32 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 19. Reports on West 65 Street span 50 distinct 311 categories. About 18 reports per 100 homes sit on West 65 Street, counting every category.
West 65 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. The housing file lists 11 residential buildings on West 65 Street holding 770 homes, with 3 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 70 homes each.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 88, with cleanliness at 71. West 65 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 81 and infrastructure at 73. Food nearby ranks 89 and tree cover 52, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 65 Street, at 96. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 65 Street is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 95.
The housing file puts 7% of the 770 homes on West 65 Street in rent stabilization, 56 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 65 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).