W 155 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 56 out of 100. How does W 155 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 56 out of 100.
Calm 43, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 155 Street in the top 33% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and transit (93). Traffic safety (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 155 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 239 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 0 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 51 reports. The whole 311 file on West 155 Street holds 173 reports, and residential noise is 29% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (31 reports) and plumbing (24). Reports on West 155 Street span 50 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 50 reports for every 100 homes on West 155 Street.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on West 155 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 12 violations on file. PLUTO counts 6 residential buildings and 346 homes on West 155 Street, with 3 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 58 homes each.
Among numbered streets, West 155 Street ranks 69 on quietness and 31 on housing. West 155 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 62 and infrastructure at 61. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 71 and tree cover at 58. West 155 Street ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 155 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 155 Street is cleanliness, at 96.
About 34% of the 346 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 116 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 155 Street runs through Washington 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).