W 124 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 47 out of 100. How does W 124 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 47 out of 100.
Calm 26, 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 124 Street in the bottom 39% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (66) and transit (95). Traffic safety (15) is the weak spot.
On the record
The crash record is the heaviest thing on file for West 124 Street. 64 people have been injured in reported crashes here since 2021, and traffic safety ranks 15 among numbered streets. Illegal parking draws more reports than anything else here, 88 of them. Across every category, 641 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name illegal parking. Residential noise follows with 83 reports, and heat and hot water with 81. Reports on West 124 Street span 71 distinct 311 categories. About 72 reports per 100 homes sit on West 124 Street, counting every category.
HPD has cited 68 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 8 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 124 Street, 34 violations of it. Behind it the file holds structure (31 violations) and pests (30). PLUTO counts 27 residential buildings and 895 homes on West 124 Street, with 16 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 33 homes to a building.
Among numbered streets, West 124 Street ranks 51 on infrastructure and 16 on cleanliness. West 124 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on cleanliness. The card also puts housing at 29 and quietness at 19 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 84 and tree cover 63, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 95. About 990 numbered streets make up the band West 124 Street is scored inside.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 124 Street is parking, at 66.
The housing file puts 26% of the 895 homes on West 124 Street in rent stabilization, 323 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 124 Street runs through Harlem and Morningside Heights, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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