W 183 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 183 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 27, 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 183 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (87) and transit (94). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 183 Street, with 346 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 621 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 56% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to illegal parking (77 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (77). Reports on West 183 Street span 53 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 183 Street carries roughly 159 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 183 Street carries 88 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 23 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 183 Street, 84 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (83 violations) and structure (34). 32 residential buildings on West 183 Street hold the 390 homes on file, 21 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on West 183 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 183 Street ranks 42 on parking and 11 on cleanliness. An 11 on cleanliness places West 183 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 24 and housing at 12. Against every street in the city, West 183 Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 61 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 183 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 87.
53% of the 390 homes recorded on West 183 Street are rent-stabilized, 205 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 183 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).