W 103 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does W 103 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 52, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 103 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (96) and transit (87). Quietness (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 103 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 85 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 302 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 28% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to residential noise (38 reports) and heat and hot water (25). Reports on West 103 Street span 48 distinct 311 categories. About 46 reports per 100 homes sit on West 103 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 103 Street carries 37 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Mold is what HPD writes up most on West 103 Street, 17 violations of it. Doors follows at 15 violations, then paint and lead at 12. City housing records put 662 homes in 36 residential buildings on West 103 Street, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 103 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 103 Street ranks 76 on infrastructure and 29 on cleanliness. A 29 on cleanliness places West 103 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 75 on the same scale, with housing at 38. Food nearby ranks 83 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. West 103 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 103 Street is parking, at 96.
13% of the 662 homes recorded on West 103 Street are rent-stabilized, 83 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 103 Street runs through Upper West Side, 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).