W 116 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 116 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 116 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and transit (93). Cleanliness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 116 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 378 of them, and cleanliness ranks 10 among numbered streets. Street/sidewalk noise accounts for 25% of the 1,541 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 301 reports, and heat and hot water with 180. Reports on West 116 Street span 90 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 116 Street carries roughly 84 reports per 100 of them.
West 116 Street carries 241 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 116 Street is pests, at 161 violations. Paint and lead follows at 96 violations, then heat and hot water at 59. 74 residential buildings on West 116 Street hold the 1,828 homes on file, 44 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 25 homes each.
NYPD records 103 people injured in crashes on West 116 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 116 Street ranks 59 on infrastructure and 21 on housing. West 116 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Traffic safety ranks 25 on the same scale, with quietness at 21. Tree cover ranks 84 and food nearby 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 116 Street, at 93. West 116 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 116 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 77.
55% of the 1,828 homes recorded on West 116 Street are rent-stabilized, 1,012 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 116 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).