W 150 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 55 out of 100. How does W 150 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 55 out of 100.
Calm 40, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 150 Street in the top 36% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (82) and transit (91). Housing (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 150 Street, with 273 reports. Across every category, 993 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 27% of them name heat and hot water. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 261 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 66. The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 150 Street carries roughly 101 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 246 Class C violations on West 150 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 25 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 150 Street is paint and lead, at 77 violations. Heat and hot water follows at 74 violations, then pests at 73. The housing file lists 78 residential buildings on West 150 Street holding 982 homes, with 50 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Since 2021, 26 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 63 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 15. That 15 on quietness puts West 150 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 55 and cleanliness at 27 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 150 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 74 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. West 150 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 150 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 82.
About 49% of the 982 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 480 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 150 Street runs through Hamilton Heights and Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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