W 68 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does W 68 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 55, 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 68 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (74) and transit (96). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 68 Street name helicopter noise than any other category, 898 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 48 reports, then noise at 26. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 662 homes on file, that is about 114 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 11 Class C violations on West 68 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 68 Street is pests, at 11 violations. Behind it the file holds bed bugs, at 10 violations. 42 residential buildings on West 68 Street hold the 662 homes on file, 29 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 68 Street holds about 16 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 68 Street ranks 73 on parking and 47 on cleanliness. West 68 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 71 and infrastructure at 64 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 68 Street ranks 95 on food nearby and 61 on tree cover. West 68 Street ranks 96 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 68 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 74.
22% of the 662 homes recorded on West 68 Street are rent-stabilized, 145 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 68 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).