W 148 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does W 148 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 148 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and transit (93). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 148 Street, with 1,493 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 2,959 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 50% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 388 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 137. In all, 62 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 148 Street. The 311 file works out to about 247 reports for every 100 homes on West 148 Street.
HPD has cited 292 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 148 Street is paint and lead, at 133 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (119 violations) and pests (115). The housing file lists 86 residential buildings on West 148 Street holding 1,199 homes, with 53 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 148 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 148 Street ranks 69 on traffic safety and 8 on housing. An 8 on housing places West 148 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 34 and cleanliness at 24 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 88 and tree cover 77, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 148 Street, at 93. West 148 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
About 43% of the 1,199 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 520 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 148 Street runs through Hamilton Heights and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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