W 106 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does W 106 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 70, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 106 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (88) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 106 Street, with 79 reports, and cleanliness ranks 27 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 106 Street holds 379 reports, and illegal parking is 21% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (47 reports) and unsanitary condition (25). In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 106 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 106 Street carries roughly 26 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 38 Class C violations on West 106 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 106 Street is pests, at 22 violations. Bed bugs follows at 22 violations, then structure at 11. 63 residential buildings on West 106 Street hold the 1,481 homes on file, 38 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 15 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 24 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 106 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 106 Street ranks 80 on traffic safety and 63 on housing. A 63 on housing places West 106 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 80 and quietness at 65 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 85 and tree cover 74, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 106 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 88.
Rent stabilization covers about 22% of the 1,481 homes on file, 330 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 106 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).