W 164 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 164 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 39, 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 164 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and transit (88). Quietness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 164 Street, with 456 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,015 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 239 reports, then residential noise at 176. The file runs across 56 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 682 homes on file, that is about 149 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 119 Class C violations on West 164 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 61 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (40 violations) and doors (36). 21 residential buildings on West 164 Street hold the 682 homes on file, 16 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 32 homes to a building.
NYPD records 8 people injured in crashes on West 164 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 82 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 16. West 164 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 36 on the same scale, with housing at 18. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 86 and tree cover at 58. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 164 Street, at 88. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 164 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
Rent stabilization covers about 72% of the 682 homes on file, 493 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 164 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).