W 87 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does W 87 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 57, 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 87 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (94) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (20) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 87 Street, with 123 reports, and cleanliness ranks 20 among numbered streets. Across every category, 747 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 16% of them name illegal parking. Heat and hot water follows with 78 reports, and residential noise with 74. Reports on West 87 Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 87 Street carries roughly 48 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 87 Street carries 53 Class C violations, 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 87 Street is pests, at 48 violations. Bed bugs accounts for 35 more, and structure for 33. 150 residential buildings on West 87 Street hold the 1,541 homes on file, 90 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 14 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 10 homes to a building.
NYPD records 11 people injured in crashes on West 87 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 79, with housing at 40. That 40 on housing puts West 87 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts parking at 63 and quietness at 42 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 87 Street ranks 89 on transit and 79 on tree cover. West 87 Street ranks 90 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 the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 94.
23% of the 1,541 homes recorded on West 87 Street are rent-stabilized, 359 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 87 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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