E 131 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 43 out of 100. How does E 131 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 43 out of 100.
Calm 37, ranked against numbered streets. Access 54, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 131 Street in the bottom 26% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (79) and transit (71). Cleanliness (14) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on East 131 Street name illegal parking than any other category, 82 of them, and cleanliness ranks 14 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on East 131 Street holds 339 reports, and illegal parking is 24% of it. Unsanitary condition follows with 49 reports, and elevator with 36. Reports on East 131 Street span 49 distinct 311 categories. The 311 file works out to about 85 reports for every 100 homes on East 131 Street.
HPD has cited 38 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 49 violations on file. Behind it the file holds mold (25 violations) and paint and lead (19). The housing file lists 16 residential buildings on East 131 Street holding 401 homes, with 10 walk-ups and 4 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 25 homes to a building.
Reported crashes on East 131 Street have injured 13 people since 2021.
Among numbered streets, East 131 Street ranks 49 on parking and 16 on housing. East 131 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 44 and traffic safety at 42. Against every street in the city, East 131 Street ranks 42 on tree cover and 35 on food nearby. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 131 Street, at 71. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 131 Street is infrastructure, at 79.
About 73% of the 401 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 293 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 131 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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