W 128 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 58 out of 100. How does W 128 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 58 out of 100.
Calm 43, 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 128 Street in the top 28% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (84) and transit (94). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
Residential noise leads the 311 file on West 128 Street, with 123 reports, and cleanliness ranks 8 among numbered streets. Across every category, 669 reports sit on this street's 311 file, and 18% of them name residential noise. Heat and hot water is the next most-filed at 53 reports, then illegal parking at 52. In all, 70 distinct 311 categories are represented on West 128 Street. Set against the 893 homes on file, that is about 75 reports per 100 homes.
West 128 Street carries 61 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 7 per 100 homes on file. The category HPD cites most often here is pests, with 66 violations on file. Behind it the file holds bed bugs (39 violations) and doors (34). PLUTO counts 80 residential buildings and 893 homes on West 128 Street, with 56 walk-ups and 6 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 11 homes each.
NYPD records 19 people injured in crashes on West 128 Street since 2021.
Of the ten measures on the card, infrastructure ranks 74 among numbered streets and housing ranks 25. That 25 on housing puts West 128 Street in the weaker half of numbered streets. The card also puts traffic safety at 64 and quietness at 42 among numbered streets. Food nearby ranks 86 and tree cover 69, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, transit is the strongest on West 128 Street, at 94. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
The strongest band-ranked measure on West 128 Street is parking, at 84.
52% of the 893 homes recorded on West 128 Street are rent-stabilized, 462 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 128 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).