W 175 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 175 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 30, 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 175 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (71) and transit (95). Quietness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 175 Street, with 331 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 175 Street holds 1,591 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 21% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 117 reports, then water system at 93. Reports on West 175 Street span 51 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 175 Street carries roughly 337 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 175 Street carries 53 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 175 Street, 71 violations of it. Pests follows at 68 violations, then paint and lead at 64. The housing file lists 23 residential buildings on West 175 Street holding 472 homes, with 17 walk-ups and 1 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 21 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 175 Street have injured 9 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 32, with housing at 15. A 15 on housing places West 175 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 28 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 16. Against every street in the city, West 175 Street ranks 90 on food nearby and 52 on tree cover. West 175 Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 175 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 175 Street is traffic safety, at 71.
76% of the 472 homes recorded on West 175 Street are rent-stabilized, 360 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 175 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).