W End Avenue, Manhattan: Grade A · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade A, 92 out of 100. How does W End Avenue in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade A, livability 92 out of 100.
Calm 93, ranked against busy avenues. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most busy avenues, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W End Avenue in the top 1% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on street crime (99) and tree cover (96). Cleanliness (83) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on West End Avenue, with 462 reports, and cleanliness ranks 83 among busy avenues. Across every category, 1,922 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 24% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 425 reports, and noise with 177. In all, 107 distinct 311 categories are represented on West End Avenue. Set against the 16,261 homes on file, that is about 12 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 189 Class C violations on West End Avenue, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 1 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West End Avenue, 116 violations of it. Pests accounts for 84 more, and doors for 79. 210 residential buildings on West End Avenue hold the 16,261 homes on file, 55 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 106 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 77 homes each.
Reported crashes on West End Avenue have injured 104 people since 2021.
Among busy avenues, West End Avenue ranks 97 on parking and 90 on housing. A 90 on housing places West End Avenue in the strongest quarter of busy avenues. Quietness ranks 94 on the same scale, with traffic safety at 92. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 91 and transit at 84. Tree cover is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 96. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 550 busy avenues.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 97.
16% of the 16,261 homes recorded on West End Avenue are rent-stabilized, 2,521 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 End Avenue runs through Upper West Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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