W 157 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does W 157 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 23, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 157 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (70) and transit (95). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 157 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 240 of them. The whole 311 file on West 157 Street holds 906 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then water system at 57. The file runs across 58 distinct 311 categories in all. About 186 reports per 100 homes sit on West 157 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 132 Class C violations on West 157 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 157 Street, 66 violations of it. Pests accounts for 62 more, and doors for 59. PLUTO counts 23 residential buildings and 487 homes on West 157 Street, with 8 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 157 Street holds about 21 homes.
NYPD records 41 people injured in crashes on West 157 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 56 among numbered streets and housing ranks 4. That 4 on housing puts West 157 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts cleanliness at 31 and traffic safety at 11 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 78 and tree cover 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 157 Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 157 Street is scored inside.
Parking is where West 157 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 70.
56% of the 487 homes recorded on West 157 Street are rent-stabilized, 274 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 157 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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