W 126 Street, Manhattan: Grade C · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C, 41 out of 100. How does W 126 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C, livability 41 out of 100.
Calm 17, ranked against numbered streets. Access 86, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most numbered streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts W 126 Street in the bottom 21% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (45) and transit (94). Cleanliness (0) is the weak spot.
On the record
Heat and hot water leads the 311 file on West 126 Street, with 160 reports, and cleanliness ranks 0 among numbered streets. Across every category, 1,164 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 14% of them name heat and hot water. Street/sidewalk noise follows with 127 reports, and residential noise with 118. The file runs across 80 distinct 311 categories in all. Set against the 754 homes on file, that is about 154 reports per 100 homes.
The HPD file on West 126 Street carries 132 Class C violations, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 18 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 126 Street, 101 violations of it. Behind it the file holds paint and lead (83 violations) and bed bugs (49). City housing records put 754 homes in 109 residential buildings on West 126 Street, 74 of them walk-up apartment buildings and 4 of them buildings with an elevator. That averages about 6.9 homes to a building.
NYPD records 41 people injured in crashes on West 126 Street since 2021.
Against numbered streets, infrastructure comes in at 31, with quietness at 10. A 10 on quietness places West 126 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. Traffic safety ranks 27 on the same scale, with housing at 12. The citywide frame puts food nearby at 86 and tree cover at 68. Transit is the strongest of the three citywide measures here, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 126 Street is parking, at 45.
Rent stabilization covers about 30% of the 754 homes on file, 227 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 126 Street runs through Harlem and Manhattanville, 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).