W 152 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 152 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 152 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (73) and transit (87). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 152 Street, with 200 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 152 Street holds 789 reports, and residential noise is 25% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 174 reports, then street/sidewalk noise at 84. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 152 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 152 Street carries roughly 87 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 103 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 152 Street is paint and lead, at 92 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (83 violations) and pests (74). PLUTO counts 61 residential buildings and 902 homes on West 152 Street, with 36 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 15 homes to a building.
NYPD records 33 people injured in crashes on West 152 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 152 Street ranks 47 on infrastructure and 16 on quietness. That 16 on quietness puts West 152 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 38 and housing at 19. Against every street in the city, West 152 Street ranks 76 on food nearby and 70 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 152 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 73.
About 51% of the 902 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 458 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 152 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).