W 180 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 180 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 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 180 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (78) and transit (93). Quietness (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 180 Street, with 1,079 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,937 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water follows with 385 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 200. The file runs across 60 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 738 homes on file, that is about 262 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 180 Street carries 297 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 40 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 180 Street, 179 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (146 violations) and doors (124). The housing file lists 30 residential buildings on West 180 Street holding 738 homes, with 25 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 41 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 54 among numbered streets and housing ranks 5. West 180 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts cleanliness at 49 and traffic safety at 23 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 92 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 180 Street ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 180 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 180 Street is parking, at 78.
About 72% of the 738 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 528 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 180 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).