W 165 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does W 165 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 24, 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 165 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and transit (87). Traffic safety (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Crashes are the mark against West 165 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 64 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 41 reports. The whole 311 file on West 165 Street holds 249 reports, and residential noise is 16% of it. Illegal parking follows with 38 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 35. Reports on West 165 Street span 53 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 165 Street carries roughly 99 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 165 Street carries 20 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 165 Street, 29 violations of it. Pests accounts for 28 more, and doors for 10. City housing records put 252 homes in 13 residential buildings on West 165 Street, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 46 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 10. A 10 on quietness places West 165 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 43 on the same scale, with housing at 31. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 86 and tree cover at 46. West 165 Street ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 165 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 165 Street is cleanliness, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 83% of the 252 homes on file, 209 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 165 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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