W 71 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 71 out of 100. How does W 71 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 71 out of 100.
Calm 61, ranked against numbered streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 71 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (95) and food nearby (95). Quietness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise leads the 311 file on West 71 Street, with 1,409 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. After that the file runs to illegal parking (164 reports) and heat and hot water (106). The file runs across 83 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 2,227 homes on file, that is about 51 reports per 100 homes.
West 71 Street carries 43 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 71 Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (49 violations) and paint and lead (21). The housing file lists 155 residential buildings on West 71 Street holding 2,227 homes, with 86 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 71 Street have injured 16 people since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 85 among numbered streets and cleanliness ranks 18. West 71 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 81 on the same scale, with housing at 62. Against every street in the city, West 71 Street ranks 93 on transit and 77 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 71 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
About 22% of the 2,227 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 480 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 71 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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