W 218 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 62 out of 100. How does W 218 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 62 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 65, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 218 Street in the top 19% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (93) and transit (75). Infrastructure (35) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 218 Street, with 57 reports. The whole 311 file on West 218 Street holds 170 reports, and illegal parking is 34% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 23 reports, then plumbing at 21. Reports on West 218 Street span 47 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on West 218 Street.
HPD has cited 9 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 218 Street, 15 violations of it. City housing records put 321 homes in 5 residential buildings on West 218 Street, 1 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 218 Street holds about 64 homes.
Since 2021, 7 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 218 Street ranks 66 on traffic safety and 39 on quietness. West 218 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on quietness. Parking ranks 54 on the same scale, with housing at 53. Against every street in the city, West 218 Street ranks 55 on food nearby and 54 on tree cover. West 218 Street ranks 75 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Cleanliness is where West 218 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
About 39% of the 321 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 125 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 218 Street runs through Inwood, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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