W 174 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does W 174 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 22, 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 174 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (77) and transit (94). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 174 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 129 of them. The whole 311 file on West 174 Street holds 571 reports, and heat and hot water is 23% of it. Water system is the next most-filed at 87 reports, then residential noise at 84. The file runs across 50 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 527 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 174 Street carries 68 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 174 Street, 60 violations of it. Doors follows at 44 violations, then paint and lead at 37. PLUTO counts 17 residential buildings and 527 homes on West 174 Street, with 12 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 174 Street holds about 31 homes.
NYPD records 27 people injured in crashes on West 174 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 25, with quietness at 11. West 174 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Cleanliness ranks 22 on the same scale, with housing at 14. Food nearby ranks 90 and tree cover 57, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 77.
65% of the 527 homes recorded on West 174 Street are rent-stabilized, 342 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 174 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).