W 174 Street, Bronx: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data

Grade D, 32 out of 100. How does W 174 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?

Livability score

Grade D, livability 32 out of 100.

Calm 13, ranked against numbered streets. Access 68, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.

That puts W 174 Street in the bottom 6% of scored streets citywide.

Strongest on cleanliness (68) and food nearby (72). Housing (2) is the weak spot.

On the record

Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 174 Street, with 76 reports. The whole 311 file on West 174 Street holds 714 reports, and residential noise is 11% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 74 reports, then blocked driveway at 74. The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 254 homes on file, that is about 281 reports per 100 homes.

Inspectors have written 101 Class C violations on West 174 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 40 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 174 Street, 55 violations of it. Doors follows at 49 violations, then structure at 49. The housing file lists 28 residential buildings on West 174 Street holding 254 homes, with 15 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 9.1 homes to a building.

Reported crashes on West 174 Street have injured 20 people since 2021.

Of the ten measures on the card, traffic safety ranks 8 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 3. West 174 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 7 and parking at 6. Transit ranks 71 and tree cover 55, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 174 Street, at 72. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.

Cleanliness is where West 174 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 68.

54% of the 254 homes recorded on West 174 Street are rent-stabilized, 149 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.

Nearest streets in Bronx

W 174 Street runs through University Heights & Morris Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.

Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).

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