W 147 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 147 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 17, 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 147 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (49) and transit (94). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 147 Street, with 665 reports, and cleanliness ranks 2 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 147 Street holds 2,043 reports, and heat and hot water is 33% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (316 reports) and dirty condition (190). Reports on West 147 Street span 76 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 958 homes on file, that is about 213 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 352 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 37 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 147 Street is paint and lead, at 221 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (198 violations) and structure (173). PLUTO counts 106 residential buildings and 958 homes on West 147 Street, with 61 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9 homes to a building.
NYPD records 37 people injured in crashes on West 147 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 147 Street ranks 35 on traffic safety and 2 on housing. A 2 on housing places West 147 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 7 and infrastructure at 5 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 79 and tree cover 79, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. West 147 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 147 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 49.
About 52% of the 958 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 501 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 147 Street runs through Hamilton Heights and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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