W 66 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 66 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.

Calm 78, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.

That puts W 66 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on housing (100) and transit (96). Traffic safety (42) is the weak spot.

On the record

Crashes are the mark against West 66 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on West 66 Street have injured 36 people, and traffic safety ranks 42 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 51 reports. Across every category, 191 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name illegal parking. Noise is the next most-filed at 47 reports, then homeless person assistance at 14. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 66 Street. The 311 file works out to about 15 reports for every 100 homes on West 66 Street.

HPD has cited no Class C violation on West 66 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk. PLUTO counts 5 residential buildings and 1,258 homes on West 66 Street, with 0 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 66 Street holds about 252 homes.

Among numbered streets, West 66 Street ranks 90 on cleanliness and 81 on quietness. West 66 Street sits in the strongest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. The card also puts infrastructure at 85 and parking at 83 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 68, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 66 Street ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.

Of the 1,258 homes on file, none are rent-stabilized.

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.

Nearest streets in Manhattan

W 66 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).

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