W 127 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 49 out of 100. How does W 127 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 49 out of 100.
Calm 28, 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 127 Street in the bottom 45% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (65) and transit (95). Quietness (5) is the weak spot.
On the record
Street/sidewalk noise is the most-filed complaint on West 127 Street, with 637 reports, and the block ranks in the louder half of numbered streets. Across every category, 1,548 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 41% of them name street/sidewalk noise. After that the file runs to heat and hot water (150 reports) and residential noise (91). In all, 69 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 127 Street. The 311 file works out to about 144 reports for every 100 homes on West 127 Street.
West 127 Street carries 206 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 19 per 100 homes on file. Pests is what HPD writes up most on West 127 Street, 95 violations of it. Paint and lead follows at 80 violations, then bed bugs at 51. The housing file lists 103 residential buildings on West 127 Street holding 1,077 homes, with 68 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 10 homes each.
NYPD records 31 people injured in crashes on West 127 Street since 2021.
Among numbered streets, West 127 Street ranks 55 on infrastructure and 6 on cleanliness. A 6 on cleanliness places West 127 Street in the weakest quarter of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 53 and housing at 13 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 85 and tree cover 73, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 127 Street ranks 95 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 127 Street is parking, at 65.
52% of the 1,077 homes recorded on West 127 Street are rent-stabilized, 559 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 127 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).