W 166 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does W 166 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 25, 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 166 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (70) and transit (92). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 166 Street, with 54 reports. Across every category, 180 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 30% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 45 reports, and residential noise with 32. The file runs across 33 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 187 homes on file, that is about 96 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on West 166 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 6 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 166 Street is heat and hot water, at 22 violations. The housing file lists 8 residential buildings on West 166 Street holding 187 homes, with 5 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on West 166 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 40 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 13. West 166 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 28 and cleanliness at 17. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 49, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 166 Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 166 Street is scored inside.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
Rent stabilization covers about 49% of the 187 homes on file, 91 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 166 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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