W 156 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 67 out of 100. How does W 156 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 67 out of 100.
Calm 60, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 156 Street in the top 11% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (97) and transit (94). Housing (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 156 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 394 of them. Across every category, 705 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name heat and hot water. Elevator is the next most-filed at 90 reports, then residential noise at 70. The file runs across 48 distinct 311 categories in all. About 108 reports per 100 homes sit on West 156 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 131 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 156 Street, 85 violations of it. Structure follows at 54 violations, then doors at 50. 28 residential buildings on West 156 Street hold the 654 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 23 homes to a building.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 86, with quietness at 18. An 18 on quietness places West 156 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 75 and cleanliness at 44. Against every street in the city, West 156 Street ranks 78 on food nearby and 55 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 156 Street, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 156 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 156 Street is traffic safety, at 97.
The housing file puts 38% of the 654 homes on West 156 Street in rent stabilization, 250 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 156 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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