W 137 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does W 137 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 137 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (92). Housing (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 137 Street, with 267 reports. The whole 311 file on West 137 Street holds 1,178 reports, and heat and hot water is 23% of it. Residential noise follows with 156 reports, and unsanitary condition with 92. Reports on West 137 Street span 62 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,555 homes on file, that is about 76 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 216 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 137 Street is pests, at 181 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (140 violations) and doors (123). 129 residential buildings on West 137 Street hold the 1,555 homes on file, 71 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 137 Street have injured 37 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 61, with cleanliness at 23. A 23 on cleanliness places West 137 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 46 on the same scale, with quietness at 31. Against every street in the city, West 137 Street ranks 78 on tree cover and 74 on food nearby. West 137 Street ranks 92 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 137 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
About 42% of the 1,555 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 660 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 137 Street runs through Harlem and Manhattanville, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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