W 160 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 160 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 160 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (78) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 160 Street, with 163 reports, and cleanliness ranks 5 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 160 Street holds 1,043 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 16% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 128 reports, then illegal parking at 79. The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 651 homes on file, that is about 160 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 160 Street carries 136 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 160 Street, 121 violations of it. Pests accounts for 89 more, and structure for 70. The housing file lists 34 residential buildings on West 160 Street holding 651 homes, with 26 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 160 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 34 among numbered streets and housing ranks 7. West 160 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 30 and quietness at 8. Transit ranks 86 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 160 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 160 Street is traffic safety, at 78.
The housing file puts 54% of the 651 homes on West 160 Street in rent stabilization, 353 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 160 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).