W 78 Street, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 81 out of 100. How does W 78 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 81 out of 100.
Calm 78, 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 78 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (96) and food nearby (96). Cleanliness (51) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 78 Street, with 62 reports, and cleanliness ranks 51 among numbered streets. Across every category, 157 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 39% of them name illegal parking. Noise follows with 18 reports, and heat and hot water with 12. In all, 46 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 78 Street. Set against the 730 homes on file, that is about 22 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 12 Class C violations on West 78 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 19 violations on file. Pests accounts for 18 more. PLUTO counts 81 residential buildings and 730 homes on West 78 Street, with 43 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 78 Street holds about 9 homes.
Since 2021, 13 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 76 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 69. West 78 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, traffic safety sits at 75 and housing at 74. Transit ranks 91 and tree cover 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 96.
Rent stabilization covers about 15% of the 730 homes on file, 115 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 78 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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