W 114 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does W 114 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 39, 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 114 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (83) and transit (89). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 114 Street name residential noise than any other category, 668 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 114 Street holds 1,488 reports, and residential noise is 45% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (232 reports) and heat and hot water (161). In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 114 Street. The 311 file works out to about 131 reports for every 100 homes on West 114 Street.
West 114 Street carries 139 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 114 Street, 87 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 54 violations, then heat and hot water at 45. The housing file lists 48 residential buildings on West 114 Street holding 1,139 homes, with 37 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 24 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 114 Street have injured 21 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 75, with cleanliness at 5. West 114 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 72 and housing at 20. Against every street in the city, West 114 Street ranks 86 on food nearby and 77 on tree cover. West 114 Street ranks 89 on transit, 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 83.
About 35% of the 1,139 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 394 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
- Morningside Drive, Manhattan
- W 109 Street, Manhattan
- Morningside Avenue, Manhattan
- W 108 Street, Manhattan
- W 123 Street, Manhattan
- W 113 Street, Manhattan
W 114 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, 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).