W 104 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 104 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 104 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (91) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 104 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 268 of them, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. Across every category, 429 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 62% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 65 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 47. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 104 Street. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on West 104 Street.
Inspectors have written 86 Class C violations on West 104 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 56 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (27 violations) and doors (19). 45 residential buildings on West 104 Street hold the 809 homes on file, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 104 Street have injured 14 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 89 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 29. A 29 on quietness places West 104 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 75 on the same scale, with housing at 33. Against every street in the city, West 104 Street ranks 88 on transit and 70 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 104 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 19% of the 809 homes on file, 157 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 104 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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