W 9 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 82 out of 100. How does W 9 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 82 out of 100.
Calm 79, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 9 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (98) and transit (98). Infrastructure (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 9 Street name encampment than any other category, 94 of them. Encampment accounts for 85% of the 111 reports on file here. Homeless person assistance is the next most-filed at 23 reports, then illegal dumping at 17. In all, 41 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 9 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 9 Street carries roughly 28 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 9 Street carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 9 Street is bed bugs, at 14 violations. Pests accounts for 10 more. The housing file lists 42 residential buildings on West 9 Street holding 399 homes, with 16 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.5 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 6 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 96, with housing at 72. West 9 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts quietness at 91 and traffic safety at 86 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 45, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 9 Street ranks 98 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 9 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
6% of the 399 homes recorded on West 9 Street are rent-stabilized, 24 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 9 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).