W 204 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 204 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 204 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and food nearby (89). Housing (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 204 Street, with 182 reports. The whole 311 file on West 204 Street holds 771 reports, and heat and hot water is 24% of it. After that the file runs to residential noise (82 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (77). The file runs across 53 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 702 homes on file, that is about 110 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 143 Class C violations on West 204 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 69 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 55 violations, then doors at 49. The housing file lists 16 residential buildings on West 204 Street holding 702 homes, with 11 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 44 homes each.
Since 2021, 50 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 204 Street ranks 75 on parking and 15 on traffic safety. West 204 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts quietness at 16 and cleanliness at 15 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 204 Street ranks 80 on transit and 72 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 204 Street, at 89. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 204 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 78.
About 72% of the 702 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 507 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 204 Street runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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