W 178 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 178 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 26, 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 178 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (97) and transit (93). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 178 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 81 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 138 of them. The whole 311 file on West 178 Street holds 568 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (123 reports) and residential noise (66). In all, 52 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 178 Street. Set against the 422 homes on file, that is about 135 reports per 100 homes.
West 178 Street carries 112 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 27 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 178 Street, 85 violations of it. Pests follows at 59 violations, then structure at 54. City housing records put 422 homes in 13 residential buildings on West 178 Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 6 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 178 Street holds about 32 homes.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 62, with housing at 6. West 178 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 24 and quietness at 13 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 93 and tree cover 56, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 178 Street ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 178 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 178 Street is cleanliness, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 75% of the 422 homes on file, 317 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 178 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).