W 119 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 61 out of 100. How does W 119 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 61 out of 100.
Calm 48, ranked against numbered streets. Access 85, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 119 Street in the top 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on traffic safety (65) and transit (88). Housing (27) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking leads the 311 file on West 119 Street, with 223 reports. Across every category, 844 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 26% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 72 reports, and street/sidewalk noise with 59. In all, 67 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 119 Street. About 68 reports per 100 homes sit on West 119 Street, counting every category.
West 119 Street carries 57 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 5 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 119 Street, 85 violations of it. Bed bugs accounts for 69 more, and doors for 24. 137 residential buildings on West 119 Street hold the 1,242 homes on file, 87 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. The average building on West 119 Street holds about 9.1 homes.
NYPD records 26 people injured in crashes on West 119 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 119 Street ranks 57 on infrastructure and 38 on parking. That 38 on parking puts West 119 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. Quietness ranks 43 on the same scale, with cleanliness at 42. Food nearby ranks 82 and tree cover 82, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 119 Street, at 88. West 119 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Traffic safety is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 65.
Rent stabilization covers about 33% of the 1,242 homes on file, 411 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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W 119 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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