W 109 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 63 out of 100. How does W 109 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 63 out of 100.
Calm 51, 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 109 Street in the top 17% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 109 Street, with 302 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 109 Street holds 999 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (209 reports) and unsanitary condition (109). Reports on West 109 Street span 63 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,437 homes on file, that is about 70 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 218 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 109 Street is doors, at 166 violations. Paint and lead follows at 163 violations, then pests at 150. 58 residential buildings on West 109 Street hold the 1,437 homes on file, 51 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 109 Street holds about 25 homes.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 91 among numbered streets and housing ranks 18. That 18 on housing puts West 109 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 56 and quietness at 33. Against every street in the city, West 109 Street ranks 85 on transit and 77 on tree cover. West 109 Street ranks 94 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
37% of the 1,437 homes recorded on West 109 Street are rent-stabilized, 532 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 109 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).