W 89 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does W 89 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 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 89 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (93) and food nearby (93). Cleanliness (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 89 Street, with 253 reports, and cleanliness ranks 24 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 89 Street holds 511 reports, and heat and hot water is 50% of it. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 117 reports, then maintenance or facility at 31. Reports on West 89 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. About 44 reports per 100 homes sit on West 89 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on West 89 Street carries 63 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 89 Street is heat and hot water, at 96 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (53 violations) and structure (33). City housing records put 1,174 homes in 90 residential buildings on West 89 Street, 66 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 13 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 89 Street have injured 10 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 89 Street ranks 76 on infrastructure and 42 on quietness. That 42 on quietness puts West 89 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 69 and housing at 46. The citywide frame puts transit at 88 and tree cover at 81. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. West 89 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 93.
The housing file puts 11% of the 1,174 homes on West 89 Street in rent stabilization, 130 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 89 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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