W 168 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does W 168 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 36, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 168 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (96) and transit (93). Traffic safety (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 168 Street, with 41 reports. Across every category, 226 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 26 reports, then heat and hot water at 16. Reports on West 168 Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 82 reports for every 100 homes on West 168 Street.
Inspectors have written 26 Class C violations on West 168 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 168 Street, 14 violations of it. The housing file lists 11 residential buildings on West 168 Street holding 277 homes, with 7 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 168 Street ranks 55 on parking and 18 on infrastructure. An 18 on infrastructure places West 168 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 35 and housing at 28 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 168 Street ranks 89 on food nearby and 54 on tree cover. West 168 Street ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 168 Street is cleanliness, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 45% of the 277 homes on file, 125 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 168 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).