W 186 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does W 186 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 37, 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 186 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (57) and food nearby (90). Quietness (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 186 Street, with 190 reports. The whole 311 file on West 186 Street holds 722 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (179 reports) and residential noise (142). Reports on West 186 Street span 48 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 129 reports for every 100 homes on West 186 Street.
The HPD file on West 186 Street carries 74 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 13 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 186 Street is pests, at 52 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 49 more, and structure for 25. City housing records put 559 homes in 14 residential buildings on West 186 Street, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 40 homes to a building.
NYPD records 15 people injured in crashes on West 186 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 186 Street ranks 57 on parking and 9 on infrastructure. That 9 on infrastructure puts West 186 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 53 and housing at 21. The citywide frame puts transit at 85 and tree cover at 58. West 186 Street ranks 90 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 186 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 186 Street is cleanliness, at 57.
The housing file puts 66% of the 559 homes on West 186 Street in rent stabilization, 370 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 186 Street runs through Washington Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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