W 83 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does W 83 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 62, 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 83 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 83 Street, with 144 reports, and cleanliness ranks 21 among numbered streets. Across every category, 606 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 66 reports, then heat and hot water at 52. In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 83 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 83 Street carries roughly 40 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 32 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 55 violations on file. Windows accounts for 28 more, and bed bugs for 26. 83 residential buildings on West 83 Street hold the 1,506 homes on file, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 83 Street holds about 18 homes.
Since 2021, 14 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 76 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 52. A 52 on quietness places West 83 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Parking ranks 60 on the same scale, with housing at 57. Against every street in the city, West 83 Street ranks 84 on transit and 74 on tree cover. Food nearby 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 83 Street is traffic safety, at 92.
16% of the 1,506 homes recorded on West 83 Street are rent-stabilized, 237 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 83 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).