W 70 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does W 70 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 66, ranked against numbered streets. Access 91, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 70 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (95). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 70 Street name helicopter noise than any other category, 1,843 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. After that the file runs to illegal parking (64 reports) and residential noise (60). The file runs across 71 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,891 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 70 Street carries 5 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West 70 Street, 37 violations of it. Pests follows at 28 violations. PLUTO counts 101 residential buildings and 1,891 homes on West 70 Street, with 71 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
NYPD records 33 people injured in crashes on West 70 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 70 Street ranks 90 on parking and 68 on traffic safety. A 68 on traffic safety places West 70 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 86 and cleanliness at 68 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 70 Street ranks 95 on food nearby and 74 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 70 Street is infrastructure, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 14% of the 1,891 homes on file, 267 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 70 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).