W 125 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 42 out of 100. How does W 125 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 42 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against numbered streets. Access 87, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 125 Street in the bottom 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (76) and transit (93). Street crime (1) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise is the most-filed complaint on West 125 Street, with 198 reports. Across every category, 1,604 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 12% of them name residential noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (159 reports) and illegal parking (148). Reports on West 125 Street span 91 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,029 homes on file, that is about 156 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 125 Street carries 309 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 30 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on West 125 Street is paint and lead, at 227 violations. Behind it the file holds pests (183 violations) and structure (116). PLUTO counts 40 residential buildings and 1,029 homes on West 125 Street, with 18 walk-ups and 5 elevator buildings among them. The average building on West 125 Street holds about 26 homes.
Since 2021, 306 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 125 Street ranks 32 on infrastructure and 2 on traffic safety. That 2 on traffic safety puts West 125 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Measured against numbered streets, quietness sits at 19 and cleanliness at 11. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 85 and tree cover at 77. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 93. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 76.
The housing file puts 34% of the 1,029 homes on West 125 Street in rent stabilization, 311 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 125 Street runs through Harlem, Manhattanville and Morningside Heights, 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).