W 122 Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 59 out of 100. How does W 122 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 59 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against numbered streets. Access 88, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 122 Street in the top 25% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (78) and transit (92). Housing (16) is the weak spot.
On the record
Illegal parking is the most-filed complaint on West 122 Street, with 224 reports. Across every category, 977 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 23% of them name illegal parking. Street/sidewalk noise is the next most-filed at 173 reports, then heat and hot water at 125. In all, 60 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 122 Street. The 311 file works out to about 73 reports for every 100 homes on West 122 Street.
West 122 Street carries 213 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 16 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is paint and lead, with 118 violations on file. Pests accounts for 113 more, and structure for 80. 144 residential buildings on West 122 Street hold the 1,336 homes on file, 75 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 9 of them buildings with an elevator. Across those buildings the average is about 9.3 homes each.
Since 2021, 56 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Against numbered streets, parking comes in at 68, with cleanliness at 20. That 20 on cleanliness puts West 122 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts quietness at 62 and traffic safety at 34 among numbered streets. Against every street in the city, West 122 Street ranks 85 on food nearby and 81 on tree cover. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 122 Street, at 92. West 122 Street is ranked against about 990 numbered streets citywide.
Infrastructure is where West 122 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 78.
The housing file puts 26% of the 1,336 homes on West 122 Street in rent stabilization, 352 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 122 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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