E 135 Street, Manhattan: Grade D · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade D, 39 out of 100. How does E 135 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade D, livability 39 out of 100.
Calm 34, ranked against numbered streets. Access 47, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, and little within a walk.
That puts E 135 Street in the bottom 16% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (78) and transit (71). Traffic safety (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
NYPD collision records are what stand out on East 135 Street. Reported crashes here have injured 58 people since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 0 among numbered streets. Complaints are rare by comparison. Residential noise is the most-filed, with 29 reports. Across every category, 83 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 35% of them name residential noise. Illegal parking is the next most-filed at 12 reports, then panhandling at 10. In all, 26 distinct 311 categories are represented on East 135 Street. The 311 file works out to about 40 reports for every 100 homes on East 135 Street.
HPD has cited 11 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 52, with cleanliness at 2. East 135 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. Infrastructure ranks 52 on the same scale, with housing at 45. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 35 and tree cover at 5. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on East 135 Street, at 71. About 990 numbered streets make up the band East 135 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on East 135 Street is parking, at 78.
The housing file puts 100% of the 206 homes on East 135 Street in rent stabilization, 206 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 135 Street runs through East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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