W 108 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does W 108 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 53, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 108 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 108 Street, with 113 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 108 Street holds 676 reports, and heat and hot water is 17% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 99 reports, then residential noise at 80. The file runs across 73 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 1,135 homes on file, that is about 60 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 80 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 108 Street, 51 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (49 violations) and doors (29). PLUTO counts 47 residential buildings and 1,135 homes on West 108 Street, with 26 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 24 homes to a building.
NYPD records 10 people injured in crashes on West 108 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 91, with quietness at 24. A 24 on quietness places West 108 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 83 and housing at 29. Transit ranks 90 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 108 Street, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 108 Street is traffic safety, at 92.
About 37% of the 1,135 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 416 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
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W 108 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).