W Broadway, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does W Broadway in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 41, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 93, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W Broadway in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (82) and transit (99). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West Broadway. Reported crashes here have injured 73 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among built-up residential streets. Encampment is the most-filed complaint on West Broadway, with 222 reports. Across every category, 547 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name encampment. After that the file runs to illegal parking (124 reports) and street condition (25). Reports on West Broadway span 68 distinct 311 categories. About 89 reports per 100 homes sit on West Broadway, counting every category.
The HPD file on West Broadway carries 4 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Bed bugs is what HPD writes up most on West Broadway, 13 violations of it. Pests accounts for 12 more. 61 residential buildings on West Broadway hold the 613 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West Broadway holds about 10 homes.
Against built-up residential streets, cleanliness comes in at 61, with infrastructure at 15. That 15 on infrastructure puts West Broadway in the weakest quarter of built-up residential streets. The card also puts parking at 46 and quietness at 36 among built-up residential streets. Food nearby ranks 97 and tree cover 72, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West Broadway ranks 99 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band West Broadway is scored inside.
Housing is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 4% of the 613 homes on file, 23 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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- White Street, Manhattan
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W Broadway runs through Tribeca and SoHo, 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).