W 120 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 54 out of 100. How does W 120 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 54 out of 100.
Calm 37, 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 120 Street in the top 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and transit (88). Cleanliness (4) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 120 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 211 of them, and cleanliness ranks 4 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 120 Street holds 844 reports, and heat and hot water is 25% of it. After that the file runs to plumbing (81 reports) and illegal parking (71). Reports on West 120 Street span 72 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 931 homes on file, that is about 91 reports per 100 homes.
HPD has cited 167 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 18 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 111 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (71 violations) and paint and lead (48). The housing file lists 134 residential buildings on West 120 Street holding 931 homes, with 84 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 6.9 homes each.
Since 2021, 37 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, quietness comes in at 56, with housing at 11. That 11 on housing puts West 120 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts infrastructure at 47 and traffic safety at 36 among numbered streets. Tree cover ranks 86 and food nearby 80, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 88. West 120 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 120 Street is parking, at 72.
30% of the 931 homes recorded on West 120 Street are rent-stabilized, 275 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 120 Street runs through Harlem, Morningside Heights and East Harlem, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
Every scored street in Manhattan, the citywide rankings of all 5,700+ graded streets, or Manhattan vs Brooklyn: How the Two Boroughs Score (2026 Data).