W 158 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 158 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 34, 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 158 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (67) and transit (91). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 158 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 369 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 158 Street holds 1,691 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 22% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 219 reports, then illegal parking at 128. Reports on West 158 Street span 64 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 158 Street carries roughly 187 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 158 Street carries 197 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 158 Street is paint and lead, at 164 violations. Pests accounts for 123 more, and structure for 89. City housing records put 906 homes in 35 residential buildings on West 158 Street, 26 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 158 Street holds about 26 homes.
NYPD records 50 people injured in crashes on West 158 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 66, with housing at 10. A 10 on housing places West 158 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 55 and traffic safety at 23 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 158 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 62 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 158 Street, at 91. West 158 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 67.
The housing file puts 37% of the 906 homes on West 158 Street in rent stabilization, 289 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 158 Street runs through Washington Heights, 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).