W 228 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does W 228 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 57, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 228 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (99) and transit (81). Tree cover (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 228 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 45 of them. Across every category, 170 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (18 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (16). In all, 20 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 228 Street. The 311 file works out to about 86 reports for every 100 homes on West 228 Street.
Inspectors have written 39 Class C violations on West 228 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 20 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 228 Street, 34 violations of it. Pests accounts for 33 more, and doors for 14. 18 residential buildings on West 228 Street hold the 198 homes on file, 5 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 2 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 228 Street holds about 11 homes.
Since 2021, reported crashes on West 228 Street have injured no one.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 84, with housing at 11. That 11 on housing puts West 228 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 80 and quietness at 38 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 80 and tree cover 0, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 228 Street, at 81. 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.
85% of the 198 homes recorded on West 228 Street are rent-stabilized, 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 228 Street runs through Kingsbridge, 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).