W 140 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 140 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 140 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (85) and transit (85). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 140 Street, with 435 reports, and cleanliness ranks 3 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 140 Street holds 1,385 reports, and residential noise is 31% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 334 reports, and illegal parking with 170. Reports on West 140 Street span 67 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,444 homes on file, that is about 96 reports per 100 homes.
West 140 Street carries 265 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 140 Street is pests, at 156 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (140 violations) and doors (95). City housing records put 1,444 homes in 79 residential buildings on West 140 Street, 49 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 73, with housing at 15. A 15 on housing places West 140 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 63 and quietness at 20 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 140 Street ranks 81 on tree cover and 72 on food nearby. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 85. West 140 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 140 Street is infrastructure, at 85.
45% of the 1,444 homes recorded on West 140 Street are rent-stabilized, 651 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 140 Street runs through Harlem and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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