W 85 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does W 85 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 68, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 85 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (17) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 85 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 127 of them, and cleanliness ranks 17 among numbered streets. Illegal parking accounts for 26% of the 481 reports on file here. Residential noise follows with 126 reports, and heat and hot water with 59. Reports on West 85 Street span 64 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 85 Street carries roughly 28 reports per 100 of them.
West 85 Street carries 56 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 3 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 85 Street is pests, at 50 violations. Behind it the file holds doors (29 violations) and bed bugs (19). City housing records put 1,717 homes in 127 residential buildings on West 85 Street, 84 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 17 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
NYPD records 14 people injured in crashes on West 85 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 91, with housing at 57. A 57 on housing places West 85 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 84 and quietness at 58 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 85 Street ranks 89 on transit and 79 on tree cover. West 85 Street ranks 93 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Traffic safety is where West 85 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
Rent stabilization covers about 16% of the 1,717 homes on file, 277 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 85 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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