W 191 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does W 191 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 30, ranked against numbered streets. Access 73, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 191 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (83) and transit (82). Infrastructure (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 191 Street, with 83 reports. Across every category, 531 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 72 reports, and unsanitary condition with 62. In all, 40 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 191 Street. Set against the 302 homes on file, that is about 176 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 88 Class C violations on West 191 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 29 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 93 violations on file. Pests follows at 59 violations, then doors at 51. 12 residential buildings on West 191 Street hold the 302 homes on file, 12 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, West 191 Street ranks 17 on cleanliness and 7 on housing. That 7 on housing puts West 191 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 15 and parking at 14 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 81 and tree cover 37, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 82. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 83.
Rent stabilization covers about 80% of the 302 homes on file, 241 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 191 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).