W 118 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does W 118 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 41, 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 118 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (93). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 118 Street, with 287 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among numbered streets. Across every category, 893 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 32% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition follows with 86 reports, and residential noise with 59. In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 118 Street. About 76 reports per 100 homes sit on West 118 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 145 Class C violations on West 118 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 118 Street is pests, at 130 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (78 violations) and structure (69). City housing records put 1,180 homes in 104 residential buildings on West 118 Street, 58 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 12 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Since 2021, 31 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 118 Street ranks 73 on infrastructure and 19 on housing. That 19 on housing puts West 118 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 56 on the same scale, with quietness at 24. Against every street in the city, West 118 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 79 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 118 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 84.
Rent stabilization covers about 42% of the 1,180 homes on file, 486 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 118 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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