W 105 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 105 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 105 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (88) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 105 Street name residential noise than any other category, 68 of them, and cleanliness ranks 28 among numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 18% of the 380 reports on file here. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 57 reports, then illegal parking at 37. Reports on West 105 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 38 reports for every 100 homes on West 105 Street.
Inspectors have written 29 Class C violations on West 105 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 105 Street, 26 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (24 violations) and pests (22). PLUTO counts 73 residential buildings and 1,013 homes on West 105 Street, with 56 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 105 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 105 Street ranks 77 on parking and 45 on housing. A 45 on housing places West 105 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 74 on the same scale, with quietness at 51. Against every street in the city, West 105 Street ranks 89 on transit and 76 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 88.
About 26% of the 1,013 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 264 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 105 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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