W 177 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does W 177 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 35, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 177 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (79) and transit (92). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 177 Street, with 175 reports. The whole 311 file on West 177 Street holds 438 reports, and heat and hot water is 40% of it. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 145 reports, and residential noise with 105. In all, 49 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 177 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 177 Street carries roughly 68 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 177 Street carries 46 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 177 Street, 101 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 84 more, and doors for 70. PLUTO counts 19 residential buildings and 647 homes on West 177 Street, with 16 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 34 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 177 Street have injured 32 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, cleanliness ranks 76 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 19. A 19 on quietness places West 177 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 37 and traffic safety at 26. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and tree cover at 63. West 177 Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 79.
Rent stabilization covers about 66% of the 647 homes on file, 424 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 177 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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