W 179 Street, Bronx: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does W 179 Street in Bronx rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 54, ranked against numbered streets. Access 63, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 179 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and food nearby (68). Traffic safety (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 179 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 30 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 10 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Heat and hot water is the most-filed, with 16 reports. Across every category, 114 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to blocked driveway (15 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (15). In all, 34 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 179 Street. The 311 file works out to about 33 reports for every 100 homes on West 179 Street.
The HPD file on West 179 Street carries 16 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. 34 residential buildings on West 179 Street hold the 342 homes on file, 4 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
Among numbered streets, West 179 Street ranks 96 on cleanliness and 39 on housing. That 39 on housing puts West 179 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 76 and quietness at 70. Transit ranks 62 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 179 Street, at 68. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 179 Street is infrastructure, at 98.
About 73% of the 342 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 251 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 179 Street runs through University Heights & Morris Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Bronx, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Bronx vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).