W 185 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does W 185 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 185 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (60) and transit (88). Quietness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 185 Street name street/sidewalk noise than any other category, 86 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 185 Street holds 313 reports, and street/sidewalk noise is 27% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (54 reports) and residential noise (16). In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 185 Street. The 311 file works out to about 222 reports for every 100 homes on West 185 Street.
HPD has cited 18 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 31 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 18 violations, then structure at 16. 10 residential buildings on West 185 Street hold the 141 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 185 Street have injured 18 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 30, with traffic safety at 10. West 185 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 26 and parking at 16. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 88 and tree cover at 51. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 185 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 185 Street is cleanliness, at 60.
About 68% of the 141 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 96 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 185 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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