W 176 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does W 176 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 23, 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 176 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (78) and transit (90). Cleanliness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 176 Street name residential noise than any other category, 107 of them, and cleanliness ranks 5 among numbered streets. Residential noise accounts for 15% of the 733 reports on file here. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (90 reports) and heat and hot water (84). Reports on West 176 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 176 Street carries roughly 130 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 109 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 19 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 176 Street is paint and lead, at 175 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (91 violations) and structure (86). City housing records put 562 homes in 18 residential buildings on West 176 Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 176 Street holds about 31 homes.
Since 2021, 23 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 176 Street ranks 36 on infrastructure and 9 on quietness. That 9 on quietness puts West 176 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 33 and housing at 10 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 176 Street ranks 89 on food nearby and 67 on tree cover. West 176 Street ranks 90 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 176 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
About 72% of the 562 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 404 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 176 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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