E 132 Street, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 31 out of 100. How does E 132 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 31 out of 100.
Calm 15, ranked against numbered streets. Access 60, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts E 132 Street in the bottom 5% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on cleanliness (54) and transit (83). Traffic safety (2) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for East 132 Street. 34 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 2 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed, with 58 reports. Across every category, 271 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 21% of them name street/sidewalk noise. Residential noise follows with 25 reports, and plumbing with 16. Reports on East 132 Street span 33 distinct 311 categories. Divided by the homes on file, East 132 Street carries roughly 160 reports per 100 of them.
Inspectors have written 22 Class C violations on East 132 Street, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 13 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 23 violations on file. Doors accounts for 14 more. City housing records put 169 homes in 10 residential buildings on East 132 Street, 7 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 3 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 17 homes to a building.
Of the ten measures on the card, parking ranks 29 among numbered streets and quietness ranks 4. East 132 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on quietness. Infrastructure ranks 19 on the same scale, with housing at 17. Food nearby ranks 53 and tree cover 15, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 132 Street, at 83. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 132 Street is scored inside.
Cleanliness is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 54.
About 57% of the 169 homes on file are rent-stabilized, 96 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 132 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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