W 79 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 79 out of 100. How does W 79 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 79 out of 100.
Calm 75, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 79 Street in the top 2% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (93) and food nearby (95). Traffic safety (53) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 79 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 39 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 53 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Illegal parking is the most-filed, with 41 reports. The whole 311 file on West 79 Street holds 266 reports, and illegal parking is 15% of it. Street condition is the next most-filed at 37 reports, then heat and hot water at 25. Reports on West 79 Street span 55 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 21 reports for every 100 homes on West 79 Street.
The HPD file on West 79 Street carries 42 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. Heat and hot water is what HPD writes up most on West 79 Street, 18 violations of it. Pests follows at 10 violations. City housing records put 1,260 homes in 41 residential buildings on West 79 Street, 15 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 16 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 79 Street holds about 31 homes.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 89, with housing at 65. West 79 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 82 and cleanliness at 79. Against every street in the city, West 79 Street ranks 91 on transit and 59 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 where West 79 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
About 10% of the 1,260 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 120 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 79 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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