W 76 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does W 76 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 74, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 76 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and food nearby (94). Cleanliness (48) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West 76 Street, with 121 reports, and cleanliness ranks 48 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 76 Street holds 427 reports, and heat and hot water is 28% of it. Illegal parking follows with 116 reports, and residential noise with 50. The file runs across 61 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 76 Street carries roughly 30 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 76 Street carries 33 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 2 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 76 Street is bed bugs, at 18 violations. Pests follows at 16 violations, then paint and lead at 14. PLUTO counts 119 residential buildings and 1,445 homes on West 76 Street, with 80 walk-ups and 16 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 11 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, traffic safety comes in at 88, with parking at 54. A 54 on parking places West 76 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 87 and housing at 69 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 89 and tree cover 71, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 76 Street, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 76 Street is infrastructure, at 93.
15% of the 1,445 homes recorded on West 76 Street are rent-stabilized, 210 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 76 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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