W 115 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 115 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 26, 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 115 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (74) and transit (92). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 115 Street, with 715 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 115 Street holds 1,071 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 67% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (365 reports) and illegal parking (140). Reports on West 115 Street span 61 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 797 homes on file, that is about 134 reports per 100 homes.
West 115 Street carries 74 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 115 Street is pests, at 24 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 20 more, and doors for 15. PLUTO counts 51 residential buildings and 797 homes on West 115 Street, with 27 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 16 homes each.
NYPD records 34 people injured in crashes on West 115 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 53 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 9. A 9 on cleanliness places West 115 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 34 and housing at 29 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 81 and tree cover 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. West 115 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 74.
Rent stabilization covers about 37% of the 797 homes on file, 295 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 115 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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