W 72 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 85 out of 100. How does W 72 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 85 out of 100.
Calm 83, 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 72 Street in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (99) and food nearby (95). Quietness (56) is the weak spot.
On the record
Helicopter noise is the most-filed complaint on West 72 Street, with 647 reports, and quietness ranks 56 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 72 Street holds 941 reports, and helicopter noise is 69% of it. Illegal parking follows with 185 reports, and heat and hot water with 109. Reports on West 72 Street span 89 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 24 reports for every 100 homes on West 72 Street.
HPD has cited 65 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 72 Street, 46 violations of it. Pests accounts for 35 more, and paint and lead for 34. The housing file lists 89 residential buildings on West 72 Street holding 3,938 homes, with 33 walk-ups and 29 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 44 homes to a building.
NYPD records 55 people injured in crashes on West 72 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 72 Street ranks 89 on cleanliness and 79 on housing. A 79 on housing places West 72 Street in the strongest quarter of numbered streets. Parking ranks 88 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 86. Against every street in the city, West 72 Street ranks 94 on transit and 71 on tree cover. West 72 Street ranks 95 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 72 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 72 Street is infrastructure, at 99.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 3,938 homes on file, 582 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 72 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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