E 121 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does E 121 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 20, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 121 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (56) and transit (88). Traffic safety (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 121 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 26 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 4 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 35 reports. Across every category, 139 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 25% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking follows with 18 reports, and blocked driveway with 17. In all, 48 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 121 Street. About 89 reports per 100 homes sit on East 121 Street, counting every category.
Inspectors have written 5 Class C violations on East 121 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 3 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 10 violations on file. 11 residential buildings on East 121 Street hold the 156 homes on file, 6 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 0 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 14 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, East 121 Street ranks 44 on housing and 7 on cleanliness. That 7 on cleanliness puts East 121 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, infrastructure sits at 36 and quietness at 20. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 88 and tree cover at 45. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. East 121 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 56.
About 67% of the 156 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 104 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 121 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).