W 179 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 179 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 19, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 179 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (65) and transit (94). Infrastructure (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 179 Street, with 78 reports. Across every category, 380 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (46 reports) and heat and hot water (37). In all, 51 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 179 Street. The 311 file works out to about 116 reports for every 100 homes on West 179 Street.
The HPD file on West 179 Street carries 47 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 179 Street, 42 violations of it. Pests follows at 32 violations, then structure at 19. The housing file lists 18 residential buildings on West 179 Street holding 328 homes, with 9 walk-ups and 2 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 18 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 179 Street have injured 47 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 179 Street ranks 24 on quietness and 7 on traffic safety. That 7 on traffic safety puts West 179 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 22 and cleanliness at 9. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 46, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 179 Street, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 179 Street is parking, at 65.
About 51% of the 328 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 168 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 Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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