E 118 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 118 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 39, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 118 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and food nearby (86). Street crime (24) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 118 Street, with 158 reports. The whole 311 file on East 118 Street holds 749 reports, and heat and hot water is 21% of it. Residential noise is the next most-filed at 143 reports, then noise at 83. Reports on East 118 Street span 66 distinct 311 categories. About 51 reports per 100 homes sit on East 118 Street, counting every category.
East 118 Street carries 104 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 118 Street is pests, at 87 violations. Heat and hot water accounts for 57 more, and bed bugs for 48. PLUTO counts 118 residential buildings and 1,465 homes on East 118 Street, with 85 walk-ups and 13 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 12 homes each.
Reported crashes on East 118 Street have injured 67 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 58, with traffic safety at 28. East 118 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on traffic safety. The card also puts quietness at 45 and housing at 30 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 81 and transit 65, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 118 Street ranks 86 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 118 Street is parking, at 76.
51% of the 1,465 homes recorded on East 118 Street are rent-stabilized, 759 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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E 118 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).