This UWS Street Is One Of The Noisiest In NYC, Study Shows

UPPER WEST SIDE, MANHATTAN — The Upper West Side is home to the second loudest street in all of Manhattan and one of the noisiest across the city, a new study found.

West 91st Street's 1,510 noise complaints in the past year landed it 18th on a PropertyClub list of the noisiest streets in New York City, topping all but one other Manhattan streets on the ranking. Only Seventh Avenue was noisier in Manhattan, ranking 13th on the list with 1,708 complaints.

For West 91st Street, almost all of the complaints were for loud music/partying — 1,412 came in under that category, 79 under banging/pounding, 15 for loud talking and 4 for loud televisions between January 2019 and February 2020, the study found.

But while those numbers may seem like a lot for the residents who called them in, researchers said the noise level is actually low compared to other noisier spots in the city.

"Compared to Brooklyn or the Bronx, Manhattan actually seems to be a lot quieter," researchers said.

All 17 other spots that topped West 91st Street, aside from Seventh Avenue, on the list of the Big Apple's noisiest streets were in the outer boroughs, with Brooklyn taking the title for the loudest of the five boroughs with a total of 56,741 complaints.

Queens' Eighth Street topped the list with 2,638 noise complaints in the past year.

For West 91st Street, it seems many of the noise complaints come from the New York City Housing Authority's complex between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues.

A quick look by Patch at the 311 data shows that there were 620 noise complaints at Wise Towers' 120 West 91st St. address in the time period the PropertyClub study analyzed.

Here's a look at the 20 streets that kept neighbors up at night:

1. Queens, Eighth Street — 2,638 complaints
2. Queens, Madison Street — 2,271 complaints
3. Queens, Ninth Street — 2,186 complaints
4. Bronx, Grand Concourse — 2,119 complaints
5. Queens, First Street — 2,106 complaints
6. Queens, Fifth Street — 2,066 complaints
7. Brooklyn, Y Avenue — 1,936 complaints
8. Brooklyn, Washington Avenue — 1,931 complaints
9. Brooklyn, Third Street — 1,929 complaints
10. Brooklyn, K Avenue — 1,856 complaints
11. Brooklyn, First Street — 1,830 complaints
12. Queens, Third Street — 1,756 complaints
13. Manhattan, Seventh Avenue — 1,708 complaints
14. Brooklyn, Second Street — 1,704 complaints
15. Brooklyn, Ninth Street — 1,689 complaints
16. Queens, Parsons Boulevard — 1,598 complaints
17. Brooklyn, Fourth Street — 1,546 complaints
18. Manhattan, West 91st Street — 1,510 complaints
19. Brooklyn, Ocean Avenue — 1,380 complaints
20. Brooklyn, Dekalb Avenue — 1,366 complaints

See the full report here.