W 143 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 143 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, 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 143 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (60) and transit (92). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 143 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 209 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,350 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 15% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 173 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 163. In all, 76 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 143 Street. About 102 reports per 100 homes sit on West 143 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 143 Street carries 226 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 143 Street is pests, at 148 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (132 violations) and doors (75). City housing records put 1,323 homes in 58 residential buildings on West 143 Street, 24 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 19 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
Since 2021, 41 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 45, with housing at 13. A 13 on housing places West 143 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 42 and quietness at 20. Against every street in the city, West 143 Street ranks 82 on food nearby and 75 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 143 Street, at 92. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 143 Street is parking, at 60.
33% of the 1,323 homes recorded on West 143 Street are rent-stabilized, 443 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 143 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).