W 98 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 75 out of 100. How does W 98 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 75 out of 100.
Calm 72, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 98 Street in the top 4% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on housing (90) and food nearby (91). Quietness (39) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 98 Street name helicopter noise than any other category, 27 of them, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 98 Street holds 135 reports, and helicopter noise is 20% of it. Noise is the next most-filed at 19 reports, then illegal parking at 18. In all, 45 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 98 Street. Set against the 530 homes on file, that is about 25 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 1 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 0 per 100 homes on file. 18 residential buildings on West 98 Street hold the 530 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 29 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 88 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 70. West 98 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts cleanliness at 84 and infrastructure at 79 among numbered streets. Transit ranks 89 and tree cover 43, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Food nearby is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 91. West 98 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 98 Street is housing, at 90.
The housing file puts 22% of the 530 homes on West 98 Street in rent stabilization, 119 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 98 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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