E 123 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 52 out of 100. How does E 123 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 52 out of 100.
Calm 35, 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 123 Street in the top 44% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on quietness (82) and transit (92). Infrastructure (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on East 123 Street, with 37 reports. The whole 311 file on East 123 Street holds 292 reports, and illegal parking is 13% of it. Heat and hot water follows with 27 reports, and paint and plaster with 12. The file runs across 47 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 288 homes on file, that is about 101 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 65 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 23 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 123 Street is heat and hot water, at 48 violations. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (44 violations) and plumbing (27). 13 residential buildings on East 123 Street hold the 288 homes on file, 8 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 123 Street holds about 22 homes.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on East 123 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 123 Street ranks 73 on cleanliness and 12 on housing. East 123 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, parking sits at 33 and traffic safety at 17. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 83 and tree cover at 63. East 123 Street ranks 92 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Quietness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 82.
The housing file puts 34% of the 288 homes on East 123 Street in rent stabilization, 69 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 123 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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