W 169 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does W 169 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 169 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (91) and transit (93). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 169 Street, with 555 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 169 Street holds 1,203 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 46% of it. Illegal parking follows with 154 reports, and residential noise with 94. The file runs across 42 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 169 Street carries roughly 238 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 169 Street carries 51 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 10 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 169 Street, 47 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 45 more, and structure for 14. PLUTO counts 24 residential buildings and 505 homes on West 169 Street, with 16 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 72 among numbered streets and parking ranks 13. West 169 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 63 and housing at 29. Food nearby ranks 89 and tree cover 58, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 169 Street is infrastructure, at 91.
Rent stabilization covers about 82% of the 505 homes on file, 414 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 169 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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