W 129 Street, Manhattan: Grade C+ · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade C+, 48 out of 100. How does W 129 Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade C+, livability 48 out of 100.
Calm 28, 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 129 Street in the bottom 42% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on parking (72) and transit (93). Street crime (7) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on West 129 Street name heat and hot water than any other category, 318 of them. Heat and hot water accounts for 28% of the 1,151 reports on file here. After that the file runs to residential noise (216 reports) and street/sidewalk noise (102). Reports on West 129 Street span 81 distinct 311 categories. Set against the 1,063 homes on file, that is about 108 reports per 100 homes.
West 129 Street carries 233 Class C violations on its HPD file, the most serious of the three classes an inspector can write, about 22 per 100 homes on file. Paint and lead is what HPD writes up most on West 129 Street, 133 violations of it. Pests accounts for 121 more, and doors for 89. The housing file lists 77 residential buildings on West 129 Street holding 1,063 homes, with 60 walk-ups and 7 elevator buildings among them. Across those buildings the average is about 14 homes each.
Since 2021, 48 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among numbered streets, West 129 Street ranks 69 on infrastructure and 12 on housing. West 129 Street sits in the weakest quarter of numbered streets on housing. Measured against numbered streets, cleanliness sits at 30 and quietness at 13. Food nearby ranks 83 and tree cover 75, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. West 129 Street ranks 93 on transit, the best of its three citywide measures. The band those ranks are drawn from holds about 990 numbered streets.
Parking is where West 129 Street ranks best against numbered streets, at 72.
The housing file puts 53% of the 1,063 homes on West 129 Street in rent stabilization, 567 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 129 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).