W 96 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 70 out of 100. How does W 96 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 70 out of 100.
Calm 62, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 96 Street in the top 7% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and transit (87). Traffic safety (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 96 Street. 85 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 39 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 178 of them. The whole 311 file on West 96 Street holds 690 reports, and heat and hot water is 26% of it. Elevator follows with 77 reports, and unsanitary condition with 70. The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 96 Street carries roughly 29 reports per 100 of them.
The HPD file on West 96 Street carries 137 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 6 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 96 Street, 48 violations of it. Pests accounts for 47 more, and doors for 35. PLUTO counts 45 residential buildings and 2,421 homes on West 96 Street, with 20 walk-ups and 18 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 54 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 90 among numbered streets and housing ranks 40. That 40 on housing puts West 96 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 78 and cleanliness at 50. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and tree cover at 73. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 87. West 96 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
Rent stabilization covers about 7% of the 2,421 homes on file, 172 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 96 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).