W 171 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 171 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 48, 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 171 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (86) and transit (91). Quietness (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 171 Street, with 169 reports. Across every category, 575 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 29% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 142 reports, then heat and hot water at 137. In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 171 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 171 Street carries roughly 85 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 171 Street carries 92 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 171 Street is pests, at 47 violations. Paint and lead follows at 46 violations, then doors at 39. PLUTO counts 25 residential buildings and 677 homes on West 171 Street, with 19 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 27 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 8 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 171 Street ranks 61 on infrastructure and 21 on housing. West 171 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 46 and parking at 42. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 90 and tree cover at 59. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. West 171 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is where West 171 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 86.
The housing file puts 75% of the 677 homes on West 171 Street in rent stabilization, 507 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 171 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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