W 90 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 78 out of 100. How does W 90 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 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 90 Street in the top 3% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (96) and food nearby (92). Cleanliness (40) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 90 Street, with 206 reports, and cleanliness ranks 40 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 90 Street holds 668 reports, and residential noise is 31% of it. Illegal parking follows with 171 reports, and heat and hot water with 63. In all, 66 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 90 Street. The 311 file works out to about 26 reports for every 100 homes on West 90 Street.
HPD has cited 41 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 33 violations on file. Heat and hot water accounts for 21 more, and bed bugs for 17. PLUTO counts 69 residential buildings and 2,544 homes on West 90 Street, with 44 walk-ups and 10 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 37 homes to a building.
NYPD records 12 people injured in crashes on West 90 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 77 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 55. A 55 on infrastructure places West 90 Street in the stronger half of numbered streets. The card also puts housing at 77 and quietness at 63 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 83 and tree cover 78, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 90 Street, at 92. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 90 Street is scored inside.
Traffic safety is where West 90 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 96.
3% of the 2,544 homes recorded on West 90 Street are rent-stabilized, 82 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 90 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).