E 125 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 57 out of 100. How does E 125 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 57 out of 100.
Calm 45, ranked against numbered streets. Access 80, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 125 Street in the top 30% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (95) and transit (90). Traffic safety (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 125 Street. Since 2021, reported crashes on East 125 Street have injured 249 people, and traffic safety ranks 3 among numbered streets. Dirty condition draws more reports than anything else here, 82 of them. Across every category, 371 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 22% of them name dirty condition. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (45 reports) and plumbing (33). Reports on East 125 Street span 67 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,116 homes on file, that is about 33 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 50 Class C violations on East 125 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 4 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 125 Street, 21 violations of it. 25 residential buildings on East 125 Street hold the 1,116 homes on file, 10 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on East 125 Street holds about 45 homes.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 83, with housing at 50. East 125 Street sits in the stronger half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts infrastructure at 62 and cleanliness at 61 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 125 Street ranks 80 on food nearby and 54 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 125 Street, at 90. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where East 125 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 95.
27% of the 1,116 homes recorded on East 125 Street are rent-stabilized, 303 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 125 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).