W 172 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 172 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 172 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (87) and food nearby (89). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 172 Street, with 423 reports. The whole 311 file on West 172 Street holds 841 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 50% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 250 reports, then residential noise at 178. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 702 homes on file, that is about 120 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 157 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 172 Street, 77 violations of it. Pests follows at 68 violations, then doors at 59. The housing file lists 23 residential buildings on West 172 Street holding 702 homes, with 20 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 31 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 172 Street have injured 25 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 77 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 10. A 10 on quietness places West 172 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 39 and cleanliness at 12. Against every street in the city, West 172 Street ranks 86 on transit and 62 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 172 Street, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 172 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 172 Street is parking, at 87.
65% of the 702 homes recorded on West 172 Street are rent-stabilized, 458 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 172 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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