E 122 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does E 122 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 47, ranked against numbered streets. Access 84, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 122 Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (98) and transit (91). Street crime (19) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 122 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 76 of them. Across every category, 332 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name heat and hot water. Illegal parking follows with 42 reports, and residential noise with 38. In all, 61 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 122 Street. The 311 file works out to about 53 reports for every 100 homes on East 122 Street.
Inspectors have written 67 Class C violations on East 122 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 11 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 122 Street, 55 violations of it. Paint and lead accounts for 50 more, and heat and hot water for 36. 19 residential buildings on East 122 Street hold the 626 homes on file, 9 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 8 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 122 Street holds about 33 homes.
Reported crashes on East 122 Street have injured 39 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 122 Street ranks 87 on parking and 20 on traffic safety. East 122 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Cleanliness ranks 77 on the same scale, with housing at 21. Food nearby ranks 87 and tree cover 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 122 Street ranks 91 on transit, 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 122 Street is infrastructure, at 98.
About 50% of the 626 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 312 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 122 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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