W 144 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 144 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 144 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and transit (94). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 144 Street name residential noise than any other category, 1,001 of them, and cleanliness ranks 2 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,764 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 57% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 303 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 269. In all, 74 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 144 Street. About 114 reports per 100 homes sit on West 144 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 144 Street carries 271 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 17 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 144 Street, 179 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 166 more, and doors for 107. 98 residential buildings on West 144 Street hold the 1,550 homes on file, 62 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 10 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 59 among numbered streets and housing ranks 12. West 144 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 37 on the same scale, with quietness at 12. Against every street in the city, West 144 Street ranks 86 on food nearby and 82 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 144 Street, at 94. West 144 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
Rent stabilization covers about 35% of the 1,550 homes on file, 532 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 144 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).