W 170 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 170 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 50, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 170 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (87) and transit (88). Quietness (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 170 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 161 of them. The whole 311 file on West 170 Street holds 517 reports, and illegal parking is 31% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 159 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 95. In all, 50 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 170 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 170 Street carries roughly 67 reports per 100 of them.
West 170 Street carries 65 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 170 Street is pests, at 78 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 56 more, and structure for 52. PLUTO counts 26 residential buildings and 768 homes on West 170 Street, with 17 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 30 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 16 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 170 Street ranks 81 on infrastructure and 30 on housing. A 30 on housing places West 170 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 65 and parking at 38 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 88 and tree cover 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 170 Street, at 88. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 170 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 170 Street is cleanliness, at 87.
Rent stabilization covers about 70% of the 768 homes on file, 536 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 170 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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