W 162 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does W 162 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 162 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (45) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 162 Street, with 442 reports, and cleanliness ranks 1 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,199 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 37% of them name illegal parking. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (166 reports) and residential noise (143). Reports on West 162 Street span 61 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 162 Street carries roughly 165 reports per 100 of them.
West 162 Street carries 152 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 21 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 162 Street, 131 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 112 more, and doors for 106. PLUTO counts 56 residential buildings and 727 homes on West 162 Street, with 25 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 162 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 20, with parking at 10. West 162 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts quietness at 11 and housing at 11 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 162 Street ranks 86 on transit and 67 on tree cover. West 162 Street ranks 88 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 162 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 162 Street is traffic safety, at 45.
67% of the 727 homes recorded on West 162 Street are rent-stabilized, 487 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 162 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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