E 119 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 119 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 26, ranked against numbered streets. Access 83, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 119 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (54) and food nearby (87). Street crime (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 119 Street, with 224 reports. The whole 311 file on East 119 Street holds 740 reports, and heat and hot water is 30% of it. Illegal parking follows with 133 reports, and unsanitary condition with 93. The file runs across 65 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 933 homes on file, that is about 79 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 96 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 10 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 100 violations on file. Doors accounts for 80 more, and paint and lead for 68. 90 residential buildings on East 119 Street hold the 933 homes on file, 70 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 11 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 119 Street holds about 10 homes.
NYPD records 59 people injured in crashes on East 119 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 42 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 19. A 19 on traffic safety places East 119 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 26 on the same scale, with housing at 20. Tree cover ranks 85 and transit 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 119 Street ranks 87 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 119 Street is parking, at 54.
41% of the 933 homes recorded on East 119 Street are rent-stabilized, 386 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 119 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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