W 91 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does W 91 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 91 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (62) and food nearby (90). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 91 Street, with 261 reports, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 91 Street holds 811 reports, and illegal parking is 32% of it. Residential noise follows with 121 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 78. Reports on West 91 Street span 75 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 143 reports for every 100 homes on West 91 Street.
HPD has cited 10 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 18 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 13 violations. City housing records put 568 homes in 48 residential buildings on West 91 Street, 30 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 12 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on West 91 Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 91 Street ranks 50 on housing and 8 on parking. West 91 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on parking. The card also puts infrastructure at 16 and quietness at 8 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 91 Street ranks 88 on transit and 74 on tree cover. West 91 Street ranks 90 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 91 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 91 Street is traffic safety, at 62.
The housing file puts 17% of the 568 homes on West 91 Street in rent stabilization, 99 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 91 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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