W 8 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does W 8 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 8 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (99) and transit (98). Tree cover (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 8 Street name noise than any other category, 16 of them. Noise accounts for 10% of the 157 reports on file here. For hire vehicle complaint follows with 13 reports, and heat and hot water with 12. The file runs across 49 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 8 Street carries roughly 41 reports per 100 of them.
West 8 Street carries 21 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 8 Street, 13 violations of it. Pests accounts for 11 more. 29 residential buildings on West 8 Street hold the 382 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 8 Street holds about 13 homes.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 91, with housing at 59. West 8 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 88 on the same scale, with quietness at 71. Food nearby ranks 98 and tree cover 32, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 8 Street, at 98. West 8 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 8 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 99.
About 38% of the 382 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 144 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 8 Street runs through Greenwich Village, 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).