E 126 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 45 out of 100. How does E 126 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 45 out of 100.
Calm 25, ranked against numbered streets. Access 81, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 126 Street in the bottom 32% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (93) and transit (91). Street crime (6) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 126 Street name unsanitary condition than any other category, 120 of them. The whole 311 file on East 126 Street holds 634 reports, and unsanitary condition is 19% of it. Residential noise follows with 116 reports, and heat and hot water with 104. The file runs across 66 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 629 homes on file, that is about 101 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 106 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 17 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 141 violations on file. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (121 violations) and structure (73). PLUTO counts 56 residential buildings and 629 homes on East 126 Street, with 41 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
NYPD records 64 people injured in crashes on East 126 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 75, with traffic safety at 8. East 126 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on traffic safety. Quietness ranks 23 on the same scale, with housing at 11. Food nearby ranks 79 and tree cover 59, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 126 Street ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 126 Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is where East 126 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 93.
The housing file puts 58% of the 629 homes on East 126 Street in rent stabilization, 366 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 126 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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