W 101 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 101 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 101 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (80) and transit (90). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 101 Street, with 43 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among numbered streets. Across every category, 195 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to rodent (41 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (36). The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 101 Street carries roughly 51 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 6 Class C violations on West 101 Street, 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 15 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 13 violations. 37 residential buildings on West 101 Street hold the 386 homes on file, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 101 Street holds about 10 homes.
NYPD records 6 people injured in crashes on West 101 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 78 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 34. That 34 on infrastructure puts West 101 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 45 and quietness at 34 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 83 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 101 Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 101 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 101 Street is parking, at 80.
The housing file puts 31% of the 386 homes on West 101 Street in rent stabilization, 120 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 101 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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