W 187 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 51 out of 100. How does W 187 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 51 out of 100.
Calm 38, ranked against numbered streets. Access 76, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 187 Street in the top 48% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (66) and food nearby (87). Housing (21) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 187 Street, with 189 reports. The whole 311 file on West 187 Street holds 622 reports, and illegal parking is 30% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 184 reports, and residential noise with 95. Reports on West 187 Street span 56 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 561 homes on file, that is about 111 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 187 Street carries 70 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 12 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 187 Street, 51 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (41 violations) and paint and lead (31). The housing file lists 29 residential buildings on West 187 Street holding 561 homes, with 14 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 26, with quietness at 23. That 23 on quietness puts West 187 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Infrastructure ranks 25 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 24. Tree cover ranks 72 and transit 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 187 Street ranks 87 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 187 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where West 187 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 66.
About 46% of the 561 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 256 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 187 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).