W 73 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 76 out of 100. How does W 73 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 76 out of 100.
Calm 69, 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 73 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (95). Cleanliness (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Vehicle noise is the most-filed complaint on West 73 Street, with 99 reports, and cleanliness ranks 16 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 73 Street holds 585 reports, and vehicle noise is 17% of it. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (87 reports) and residential noise (78). The file runs across 75 distinct 311 categories in all. About 31 reports per 100 homes sit on West 73 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 14 Class C violations on West 73 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 73 Street is bed bugs, at 33 violations. Pests accounts for 32 more, and paint and lead for 23. PLUTO counts 98 residential buildings and 1,872 homes on West 73 Street, with 71 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 19 homes each.
NYPD records 18 people injured in crashes on West 73 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 73 Street ranks 91 on traffic safety and 40 on quietness. A 40 on quietness places West 73 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Housing ranks 83 on the same scale, with infrastructure at 74. Against every street in the city, West 73 Street ranks 94 on transit and 73 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.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
16% of the 1,872 homes recorded on West 73 Street are rent-stabilized, 295 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 73 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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