W 74 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 77 out of 100. How does W 74 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 77 out of 100.
Calm 69, 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 74 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (95) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 74 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 113 of them, and cleanliness ranks 6 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 74 Street holds 492 reports, and illegal parking is 23% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 48 reports, then heat and hot water at 31. In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 74 Street. About 33 reports per 100 homes sit on West 74 Street, counting every category.
West 74 Street carries 30 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 74 Street is bed bugs, at 20 violations. Pests accounts for 17 more, and paint and lead for 11. City housing records put 1,476 homes in 113 residential buildings on West 74 Street, 73 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 18 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 86 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 53. A 53 on quietness places West 74 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 75 on the same scale, with housing at 68. Transit ranks 93 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 74 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 74 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 74 Street is traffic safety, at 89.
About 18% of the 1,476 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 269 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 74 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).