W 163 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 163 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 163 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (86). Quietness (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 163 Street name residential noise than any other category, 578 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 679 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 85% of them name residential noise. Vehicle noise is the next most-filed at 182 reports, then heat and hot water at 87. Reports on West 163 Street span 52 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 163 Street carries roughly 85 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 86 Class C violations on West 163 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 163 Street is pests, at 81 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 58 more, and doors for 28. 25 residential buildings on West 163 Street hold the 801 homes on file, 17 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 32 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 163 Street have injured 23 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 93, with housing at 21. A 21 on housing places West 163 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 81 and traffic safety at 50. Transit ranks 80 and tree cover 64, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 86. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 98.
58% of the 801 homes recorded on West 163 Street are rent-stabilized, 473 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 163 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).