W 190 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 53 out of 100. How does W 190 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 53 out of 100.
Calm 41, 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 190 Street in the top 41% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (65) and transit (80). Quietness (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise leads the 311 file on West 190 Street, with 324 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 716 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 45% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 220 reports, then water system at 114. In all, 56 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 190 Street. About 104 reports per 100 homes sit on West 190 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 190 Street carries 10 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 190 Street is pests, at 50 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 44 more, and doors for 28. 13 residential buildings on West 190 Street hold the 687 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 53 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 19 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, housing comes in at 55, with parking at 18. An 18 on parking places West 190 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 51 and infrastructure at 22 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 78 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 190 Street, at 80. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 190 Street is cleanliness, at 65.
About 58% of the 687 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 395 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 190 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).