W 149 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 149 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 29, 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 149 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and transit (93). Cleanliness (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 149 Street name residential noise than any other category, 226 of them, and cleanliness ranks 2 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 149 Street holds 1,175 reports, and residential noise is 19% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (225 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (176). Reports on West 149 Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 149 Street carries roughly 131 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 218 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 149 Street, 144 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (110 violations) and plumbing (72). 79 residential buildings on West 149 Street hold the 894 homes on file, 56 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
Since 2021, 27 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 149 Street ranks 64 on infrastructure and 9 on housing. That 9 on housing puts West 149 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 46 and quietness at 9. Food nearby ranks 85 and tree cover 76, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 149 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 73.
About 59% of the 894 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 531 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 149 Street runs through Hamilton Heights and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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