W 142 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 142 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 142 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (61) and transit (89). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 142 Street, with 449 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,287 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 292 reports, then residential noise at 174. Reports on West 142 Street span 68 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,378 homes on file, that is about 93 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 142 Street carries 217 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on West 142 Street, 123 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (118 violations) and paint and lead (87). PLUTO counts 103 residential buildings and 1,378 homes on West 142 Street, with 63 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 142 Street have injured 68 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 49, with housing at 16. A 16 on housing places West 142 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 29 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 27. Food nearby ranks 80 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 142 Street, at 89. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 61.
51% of the 1,378 homes recorded on West 142 Street are rent-stabilized, 701 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 142 Street runs through Harlem and Hamilton Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).