E 124 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 124 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 27, ranked against numbered streets. Access 82, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 124 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (70) and transit (90). Traffic safety (9) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 124 Street. 43 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 9 among numbered streets. Heat and hot water draws more reports than anything else here, 72 of them. Across every category, 435 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to residential noise (45 reports) and dirty condition (44). The file runs across 67 distinct 311 categories in all. About 83 reports per 100 homes sit on East 124 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 48 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on East 124 Street is heat and hot water, at 62 violations. Paint and lead accounts for 55 more, and doors for 31. 21 residential buildings on East 124 Street hold the 527 homes on file, 14 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 5 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 25 homes each.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 60 among numbered streets and infrastructure ranks 19. East 124 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on infrastructure. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 23 and housing at 23. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 84 and tree cover at 57. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 124 Street, at 90. East 124 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 70.
The housing file puts 23% of the 527 homes on East 124 Street in rent stabilization, 121 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 124 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).