W 138 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does W 138 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 44, 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 138 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (62) and transit (92). Housing (23) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 138 Street, with 416 reports. Across every category, 1,202 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (261 reports) and residential noise (113). Reports on West 138 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,428 homes on file, that is about 84 reports per 100 homes.
West 138 Street carries 168 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 138 Street is pests, at 114 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (59 violations) and bed bugs (52). 147 residential buildings on West 138 Street hold the 1,428 homes on file, 81 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 7 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 9.7 homes to a building.
NYPD records 28 people injured in crashes on West 138 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 138 Street ranks 42 on infrastructure and 33 on parking. A 33 on parking places West 138 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 41 on the same scale, with quietness at 36. Against every street in the city, West 138 Street ranks 82 on tree cover and 77 on food nearby. West 138 Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 138 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where West 138 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 62.
Rent stabilization covers about 33% of the 1,428 homes on file, 478 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 138 Street runs through Harlem and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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