E 128 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 44 out of 100. How does E 128 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 44 out of 100.
Calm 24, 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 128 Street in the bottom 29% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (81) and transit (91). Housing (3) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on East 128 Street, with 196 reports. The whole 311 file on East 128 Street holds 544 reports, and heat and hot water is 36% of it. Plumbing follows with 43 reports, and unsanitary condition with 42. The file runs across 57 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 414 homes on file, that is about 131 reports per 100 homes.
Inspectors have written 174 Class C violations on East 128 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 42 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 70 violations on file. Paint and lead follows at 42 violations, then heat and hot water at 27. PLUTO counts 18 residential buildings and 414 homes on East 128 Street, with 8 walk-ups and 3 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 23 homes each.
NYPD records 51 people injured in crashes on East 128 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, quietness ranks 53 among numbered streets and traffic safety ranks 5. A 5 on traffic safety places East 128 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 34 and cleanliness at 15 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, East 128 Street ranks 75 on food nearby and 58 on tree cover. East 128 Street ranks 91 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 128 Street is parking, at 81.
72% of the 414 homes recorded on East 128 Street are rent-stabilized, 297 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 128 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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