W 205 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 205 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 72, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 205 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (98) and food nearby (85). Housing (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 205 Street, with 24 reports. Across every category, 142 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. Water system is the next most-filed, with 11 reports. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 205 Street. The 311 file works out to about 83 reports for every 100 homes on West 205 Street.
West 205 Street carries 25 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 15 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 205 Street is pests, at 38 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 23 more, and plumbing for 11. City housing records put 172 homes in 4 residential buildings on West 205 Street, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 43 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 205 Street have injured 12 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 44 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 14. West 205 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 36 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 15. The citywide frame puts transit at 81 and tree cover at 29. West 205 Street ranks 85 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 205 Street is parking, at 98.
The housing file puts 97% of the 172 homes on West 205 Street in rent stabilization, 167 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 205 Street runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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