W 165 Street, Manhattan NYC — Traffic Safety, Noise & Cleanliness Scores | 2026
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 165 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 22, 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 24% 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. 64 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 1 among numbered streets. HPD has cited 23 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 41 reports. Transit ranks 87, the strongest of the ten dimensions, and access ranks 79 against every street in the city. About 83% of the 252 homes on file are rent-stabilized.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash 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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