W 86 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 86 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 78 out of 100.
Calm 74, 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 86 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and food nearby (93). Traffic safety (66) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on West 86 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 39 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 66 among numbered streets. The 311 file on West 86 Street is led by illegal parking, with 92 reports. Across every category, 516 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 87 reports, then heat and hot water at 82. Reports on West 86 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 22 reports for every 100 homes on West 86 Street.
The HPD file on West 86 Street carries 24 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 86 Street, 29 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (22 violations) and bed bugs (12). The housing file lists 69 residential buildings on West 86 Street holding 2,372 homes, with 19 walk-ups and 39 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 34 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, housing ranks 74 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 70. That 70 on quietness puts West 86 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 71 and infrastructure at 71. Against every street in the city, West 86 Street ranks 86 on transit and 77 on tree cover. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. West 86 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is where West 86 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
13% of the 2,372 homes recorded on West 86 Street are rent-stabilized, 316 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 86 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).