W 188 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does W 188 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against numbered streets. Access 77, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 188 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (52) and food nearby (88). Cleanliness (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 188 Street, with 180 reports, and cleanliness ranks 7 among numbered streets. Across every category, 511 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to street/sidewalk noise (160 reports) and residential noise (89). In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 188 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 188 Street carries roughly 133 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 188 Street carries 35 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 188 Street, 63 violations of it. Pests accounts for 54 more, and doors for 27. 13 residential buildings on West 188 Street hold the 385 homes on file, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 188 Street holds about 30 homes.
Reported crashes on West 188 Street have injured 11 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 188 Street ranks 30 on infrastructure and 8 on quietness. An 8 on quietness places West 188 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Housing ranks 23 on the same scale, with parking at 20. Against every street in the city, West 188 Street ranks 78 on transit and 59 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. West 188 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 52.
The housing file puts 82% of the 385 homes on West 188 Street in rent stabilization, 314 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.
Nearest streets in Manhattan
- W 190 Street, Manhattan
- Bennett Avenue, Manhattan
- W 186 Street, Manhattan
- W 191 Street, Manhattan
- Fairview Avenue, Manhattan
- Wadsworth Ter, Manhattan
W 188 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).