W 153 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does W 153 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 29, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 153 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (87). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 153 Street, with 361 reports, and cleanliness ranks 14 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 153 Street holds 557 reports, and residential noise is 65% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 88 reports, and illegal parking with 50. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 153 Street. The 311 file works out to about 70 reports for every 100 homes on West 153 Street.
The HPD file on West 153 Street carries 55 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 153 Street is pests, at 43 violations. Paint and lead follows at 27 violations, then doors at 23. 39 residential buildings on West 153 Street hold the 794 homes on file, 19 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 20 homes each.
Since 2021, 44 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 45, with quietness at 22. A 22 on quietness places West 153 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 23 and housing at 23 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 68 and food nearby 67, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 153 Street, at 87. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 153 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where West 153 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 84.
69% of the 794 homes recorded on West 153 Street are rent-stabilized, 546 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 153 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).