W 123 Street, Manhattan: Grade B+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B+, 68 out of 100. How does W 123 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B+, livability 68 out of 100.
Calm 56, ranked against numbered streets. Access 89, ranked against every street in the city. Fewer complaints per home than most numbered streets, and a lot within a walk.
That puts W 123 Street in the top 10% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (83) and transit (93). Cleanliness (13) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 123 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 237 of them, and cleanliness ranks 13 among numbered streets. The whole 311 file on West 123 Street holds 1,098 reports, and heat and hot water is 22% of it. Illegal parking follows with 144 reports, and residential noise with 75. The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, West 123 Street carries roughly 61 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 166 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 9 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 123 Street is pests, at 93 violations. Heat and hot water follows at 67 violations, then bed bugs at 63. PLUTO counts 153 residential buildings and 1,801 homes on West 123 Street, with 86 walk-ups and 11 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 123 Street holds about 12 homes.
NYPD records 25 people injured in crashes on West 123 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 123 Street ranks 82 on traffic safety and 26 on housing. West 123 Street sits in the weaker half of numbered streets on housing. The card also puts parking at 56 and quietness at 54 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 86 and tree cover 81, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Infrastructure is where West 123 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 83.
14% of the 1,801 homes recorded on West 123 Street are rent-stabilized, 254 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 123 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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