W 97 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 69 out of 100. How does W 97 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 69 out of 100.
Calm 58, 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 97 Street in the top 8% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and transit (92). Housing (25) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 97 Street, with 299 reports. Across every category, 732 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 128 reports, then elevator at 80. Reports on West 97 Street span 70 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, West 97 Street carries roughly 52 reports per 100 of them.
West 97 Street carries 132 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 9 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 97 Street, 128 violations of it. Pests follows at 81 violations, then paint and lead at 55. The housing file lists 13 residential buildings on West 97 Street holding 1,413 homes, with 2 walk-ups and 8 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 109 homes each.
Reported crashes on West 97 Street have injured 32 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, cleanliness comes in at 72, with infrastructure at 47. West 97 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on infrastructure. Quietness ranks 61 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 61. Against every street in the city, West 97 Street ranks 92 on food nearby and 71 on tree cover. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 92. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 97 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 97 Street is parking, at 81.
48% of the 1,413 homes recorded on West 97 Street are rent-stabilized, 672 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 97 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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