W 215 Street, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 38 out of 100. How does W 215 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 38 out of 100.
Calm 20, 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 215 Street in the bottom 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (39) and transit (83). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 215 Street, with 105 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 215 Street holds 302 reports, and heat and hot water is 35% of it. After that the file runs to illegal parking (81 reports) and noise (32). Reports on West 215 Street span 41 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 155 reports for every 100 homes on West 215 Street.
The HPD file on West 215 Street carries 27 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 14 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 215 Street is doors, at 13 violations. City housing records put 195 homes in 4 residential buildings on West 215 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 215 Street holds about 49 homes.
NYPD records 7 people injured in crashes on West 215 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 215 Street ranks 17 on parking and 3 on infrastructure. That 3 on infrastructure puts West 215 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 17 and quietness at 11 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 215 Street ranks 71 on food nearby and 46 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 83. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 215 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 215 Street is traffic safety, at 39.
The housing file puts 59% of the 195 homes on West 215 Street in rent stabilization, 116 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 215 Street runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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