W 189 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does W 189 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 189 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (67) and food nearby (86). Cleanliness (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 189 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 171 of them, and cleanliness ranks 3 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 189 Street holds 713 reports, and heat and hot water is 24% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 90 reports, then commercial noise at 52. In all, 55 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 189 Street. Divided by the homes on file, West 189 Street carries roughly 168 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 189 Street carries 106 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 25 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 189 Street, 142 violations of it. Pests accounts for 137 more, and doors for 45. City housing records put 424 homes in 12 residential buildings on West 189 Street, 11 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 35 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 189 Street ranks 58 on infrastructure and 3 on housing. A 3 on housing places West 189 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 49 on the same scale, with quietness at 7. Transit ranks 82 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 189 Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 189 Street is parking, at 67.
About 79% of the 424 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 336 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
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W 189 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).