W 173 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 173 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 173 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (96) and transit (90). Housing (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 173 Street, with 367 reports. Across every category, 806 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 46% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (104 reports) and unsanitary condition (74). In all, 65 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 173 Street. Set against the 653 homes on file, that is about 123 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 173 Street carries 157 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 24 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 173 Street, 128 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 94 more, and structure for 57. City housing records put 653 homes in 39 residential buildings on West 173 Street, 34 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 17 homes each.
NYPD records 39 people injured in crashes on West 173 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 71, with quietness at 13. A 13 on quietness places West 173 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 23 and traffic safety at 16. Against every street in the city, West 173 Street ranks 89 on food nearby and 64 on tree cover. West 173 Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where West 173 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 70% of the 653 homes on file, 447 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 173 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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