Waverly Place, Manhattan NYC — Village Charm | 2026
Waverly Place winds through the heart of Greenwich Village. Quiet residential blocks meet historic charm. See scores and local insights.
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 71, ranked against busy avenues. Access 92, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Waverly Place in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (97) and transit (99). Street crime (32) is the weak spot.
On the record
Encampment is the most-filed complaint on Waverly Place, with 91 reports. The whole 311 file on Waverly Place holds 244 reports, and encampment is 37% of it. Obstruction follows with 60 reports, and residential noise with 59. The file runs across 62 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 771 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Waverly Place carries 2 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 0 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Waverly Place is paint and lead, at 13 violations. Pests accounts for 11 more, and bed bugs for 11. PLUTO counts 58 residential buildings and 771 homes on Waverly Place, with 25 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. The average building on Waverly Place holds about 13 homes.
Reported crashes on Waverly Place have injured 12 people since 2021.
Against busy avenues, parking comes in at 96, with quietness at 47. That 47 on quietness puts Waverly Place in the weaker half of busy avenues. The card also puts housing at 92 and cleanliness at 78 among busy avenues. Against every street in the city, Waverly Place ranks 99 on food nearby and 62 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 99. About 550 busy avenues make up the band Waverly Place is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on Waverly Place is infrastructure, at 97.
About 15% of the 771 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 119 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
- Greenwich Avenue, Manhattan
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- Gay Street, Manhattan
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Waverly Place runs through West Village and 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).