W 88 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 72 out of 100. How does W 88 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 72 out of 100.
Calm 65, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 88 Street in the top 6% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (92) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (11) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 88 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 139 of them, and cleanliness ranks 11 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 88 Street holds 439 reports, and illegal parking is 32% of it. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 67 reports, then noise at 60. Reports on West 88 Street span 73 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,381 homes on file, that is about 32 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 47 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is bed bugs, with 38 violations on file. Pests follows at 30 violations, then paint and lead at 25. PLUTO counts 156 residential buildings and 1,381 homes on West 88 Street, with 85 walk-ups and 9 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 88 Street holds about 8.9 homes.
Since 2021, 12 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 81, with housing at 53. West 88 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. Infrastructure ranks 78 on the same scale, with quietness at 64. Transit ranks 84 and tree cover 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 88 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.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 88 Street is traffic safety, at 92.
18% of the 1,381 homes recorded on West 88 Street are rent-stabilized, 244 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 88 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).