W 145 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does W 145 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 24, 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 145 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (80) and transit (92). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 145 Street. 320 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 3 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 145 Street, with 326 reports. Across every category, 2,235 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 188 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 160. The file runs across 86 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 145 Street carries roughly 120 reports per 100 of them.
West 145 Street carries 348 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 145 Street is pests, at 233 violations. Paint and lead follows at 157 violations, then doors at 143. The housing file lists 81 residential buildings on West 145 Street holding 1,870 homes, with 48 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 58 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 14. That 14 on quietness puts West 145 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 28 and housing at 16 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 145 Street ranks 81 on food nearby and 77 on tree cover. West 145 Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 145 Street is infrastructure, at 80.
33% of the 1,870 homes recorded on West 145 Street are rent-stabilized, 621 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 145 Street runs through Hamilton Heights and Harlem, 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).