W 196 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does W 196 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 55, ranked against numbered streets. Access 66, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 196 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (80). Housing (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 196 Street, with 30 reports. The whole 311 file on West 196 Street holds 160 reports, and heat and hot water is 19% of it. In all, 16 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 196 Street. The 311 file works out to about 184 reports for every 100 homes on West 196 Street.
The HPD file on West 196 Street carries 21 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 196 Street, 29 violations of it. Pests follows at 23 violations, then structure at 16.
No one has been injured in a reported crash here since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 196 Street ranks 94 on infrastructure and 11 on quietness. That 11 on quietness puts West 196 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 64 and cleanliness at 26 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 71 and tree cover 23, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 196 Street, at 80. 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 99.
About 78% of the 87 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 68 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 196 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).