E 127 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 46 out of 100. How does E 127 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 46 out of 100.
Calm 28, ranked against numbered streets. Access 79, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 127 Street in the bottom 35% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (76) and transit (88). Housing (10) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 127 Street, with 56 reports. Across every category, 327 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 17% of them name heat and hot water. After that the file runs to unsanitary condition (40 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (32). The file runs across 45 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 302 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 68 Class C violations on East 127 Street, 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 127 Street is paint and lead, at 48 violations. Plumbing accounts for 44 more, and pests for 43. City housing records put 302 homes in 34 residential buildings on East 127 Street, 25 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 1 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 8.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 22 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 71 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 13. A 13 on traffic safety places East 127 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Cleanliness ranks 16 on the same scale, with quietness at 15. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 53, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. East 127 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where East 127 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 76.
16% of the 302 homes recorded on East 127 Street are rent-stabilized, 49 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 127 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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