W 146 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 146 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 146 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (71) and transit (93). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 146 Street, with 450 reports. The whole 311 file on West 146 Street holds 1,513 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 179 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 163. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 146 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 146 Street carries roughly 128 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 440 Class C violations on West 146 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 37 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 146 Street, 207 violations of it. Pests follows at 179 violations, then heat and hot water at 134. The housing file lists 76 residential buildings on West 146 Street holding 1,184 homes, with 47 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 16 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 32 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 65 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 18. West 146 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Traffic safety ranks 54 on the same scale, with quietness at 19. Food nearby ranks 83 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 146 Street, at 93. West 146 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
The housing file puts 44% of the 1,184 homes on West 146 Street in rent stabilization, 519 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 146 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).