Magaw Place, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does Magaw Place in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against quiet residential streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most quiet residential streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts Magaw Place in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (100) and transit (94). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Magaw Place name heat and hot water than any other category, 452 of them. Residential noise follows with 44 reports, and illegal parking with 27. The file runs across 30 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 224 homes on file, that is about 155 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on Magaw Place carries 83 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 37 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Magaw Place is paint and lead, at 33 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (23 violations) and pests (17). City housing records put 224 homes in 5 residential buildings on Magaw Place, 2 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on Magaw Place holds about 45 homes.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 99 among quiet residential streets and cleanliness ranks 16. That 16 on cleanliness puts Magaw Place in the weakest quarter of quiet residential streets. Measured against quiet residential streets, parking sits at 68 and quietness at 19. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 25, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Magaw Place ranks 94 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 1,970 quiet residential streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 100.
About 48% of the 224 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 108 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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Magaw Place runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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