W 117 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 117 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 43, 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 117 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and transit (95). Quietness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 117 Street, with 169 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 829 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 20% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (131 reports) and illegal parking (98). In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 117 Street. The 311 file works out to about 91 reports for every 100 homes on West 117 Street.
The HPD file on West 117 Street carries 96 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 117 Street, 86 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 37 violations, then bed bugs at 31. PLUTO counts 70 residential buildings and 911 homes on West 117 Street, with 51 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 13 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 17 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 70, with housing at 19. That 19 on housing puts West 117 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 70 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 27. Against every street in the city, West 117 Street ranks 77 on tree cover and 76 on food nearby. West 117 Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 117 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 73.
32% of the 911 homes recorded on West 117 Street are rent-stabilized, 327 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 117 Street runs through Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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