W 99 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 65 out of 100. How does W 99 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 65 out of 100.
Calm 58, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 99 Street in the top 14% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (97) and food nearby (88). Street crime (28) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 99 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 46 of them. The whole 311 file on West 99 Street holds 163 reports, and heat and hot water is 28% of it. Residential noise follows with 22 reports, and unsanitary condition with 13. Reports on West 99 Street span 40 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 474 homes on file, that is about 34 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 99 Street carries 40 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Doors is what HPD writes up most on West 99 Street, 50 violations of it. Behind it the file holds pests (22 violations) and paint and lead (20). 16 residential buildings on West 99 Street hold the 474 homes on file, 3 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 30 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 10 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 99 Street ranks 72 on quietness and 34 on housing. That 34 on housing puts West 99 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 72 and cleanliness at 52 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 99 Street ranks 84 on transit and 51 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on West 99 Street, at 88. West 99 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 99 Street is parking, at 97.
About 28% of the 474 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 133 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 99 Street runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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