E 120 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does E 120 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against numbered streets. Access 78, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 120 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (59) and food nearby (84). Traffic safety (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 120 Street. 79 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 7 among numbered streets. Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on East 120 Street, with 208 reports. Across every category, 554 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 38% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 94 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 73. The file runs across 54 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 652 homes on file, that is about 85 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 16 Class C violations on East 120 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 2 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 55 violations on file. Bed bugs follows at 38 violations, then paint and lead at 35. City housing records put 652 homes in 64 residential buildings on East 120 Street, 47 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 42, with quietness at 15. That 15 on quietness puts East 120 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, housing sits at 38 and cleanliness at 34. Against every street in the city, East 120 Street ranks 81 on tree cover and 74 on transit. East 120 Street ranks 84 on food nearby, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where East 120 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 59.
About 39% of the 652 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 253 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 120 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).