E 129 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does E 129 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 75, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 129 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (90) and transit (87). Housing (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water is the most-filed complaint on East 129 Street, with 92 reports. Across every category, 478 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 19% of them name heat and hot water. Unsanitary condition follows with 30 reports, and water leak with 29. Reports on East 129 Street span 48 distinct 311 categories. About 111 reports per 100 homes sit on East 129 Street, counting every category.
The HPD file on East 129 Street carries 141 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 33 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on East 129 Street, 65 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 46 violations, then doors at 44. PLUTO counts 40 residential buildings and 429 homes on East 129 Street, with 27 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 11 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 129 Street have injured 52 people since 2021.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 78, with traffic safety at 6. A 6 on traffic safety places East 129 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 70 and cleanliness at 16 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 72 and tree cover 50, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. East 129 Street ranks 87 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where East 129 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 90.
The housing file puts 42% of the 429 homes on East 129 Street in rent stabilization, 178 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 129 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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