W 151 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 151 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 151 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (82) and transit (82). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 151 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 306 of them. The whole 311 file on West 151 Street holds 1,237 reports, and heat and hot water is 25% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 197 reports, and residential noise with 107. In all, 68 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 151 Street. About 135 reports per 100 homes sit on West 151 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 173 Class C violations on West 151 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 151 Street, 152 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 124 more, and structure for 77. The housing file lists 34 residential buildings on West 151 Street holding 916 homes, with 24 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 27 homes each.
Since 2021, 18 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 69, with housing at 12. A 12 on housing places West 151 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 67 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 13. Food nearby ranks 71 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 151 Street, at 82. West 151 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
Rent stabilization covers about 47% of the 916 homes on file, 427 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 151 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).