W 69 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 69 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 69 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and transit (97). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise leads the 311 file on West 69 Street, with 1,538 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (48 reports) and noise (36). Reports on West 69 Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 113 reports for every 100 homes on West 69 Street.
The HPD file on West 69 Street carries 22 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 69 Street, 18 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 14 more, and structure for 11. PLUTO counts 76 residential buildings and 1,081 homes on West 69 Street, with 56 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 69 Street have injured 20 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 69 Street ranks 98 on infrastructure and 52 on cleanliness. A 52 on cleanliness places West 69 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 72 and housing at 63. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 94 and tree cover at 67. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 97. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 69 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where West 69 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
About 17% of the 1,081 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 179 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 69 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).